John Clifford, Ph.D.

Dr. Clifford earned his doctorate degree from Michigan State University in 1998; his master’s degree from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington; his bachelor’s degree from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.

He joined the University of Michigan-Dearborn as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in Fall 2000, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and to Professor in 2015. He is the undergraduate program advisor for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Dr. Clifford’s area of expertise is the study of composition operators on spaces of analytic functions. His research interests are in operator theory on spaces of analytic functions, and the location of zeroes of complex valued functions.

Research Interests:

Operator theory on spaces of analytic function.