Peter Jephson Cameron FRSE (born 23 January 1947) is an Australian mathematician who works in
group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, and model theory.
He is currently half-time Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, and Emeritus Professor at Queen Mary University of London.
Cameron received a B.Sc.
from the University of Queensland and a D.Phil.
in 1971 from University of Oxford, with Peter M.
Neumann as his supervisor.
Subsequently, he was a Junior Research Fellow and later a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and also lecturer at Bedford College, London.