David Conlon received his BA from Trinity College Dublin in 2003 and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2009, where he studied under the supervision of Tim Gowers. He was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge for three years after completing his PhD. Since 2011, he has been an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, a Tutorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He has received a number of awards, including the European Prize in Combinatorics in 2011, and was an invited speaker in the Combinatorics Section at the 2014 ICM.