Lucas Mol Associate Teaching Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Thompson Rivers University

I am an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. I am proud to live, work, and play as an uninvited guest in the ancestral lands of the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl'ecw, the traditional and unceded territory of the Secwépemc.

I completed my PhD at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Jason I. Brown, and I completed postdoctoral research at the University of Winnipeg under the supervision of Dr. James D. Currie, Dr. Ortrud R. Oellermann, and Dr. Narad Rampersad.

My research is in combinatorics on words, an area that lies at the border of mathematics and theoretical computer science. I am primarily interested in long strings over small alphabets. Which patterns can be avoided, and which must inevitably occur? I use a mix of mathematical proof and computation to establish new results related to pattern avoidance.

Here is a CV, last updated August 2025. You can also view my profile on Google Scholar.

Email: lmol at tru dot ca