Research Interests - Banach algebras

I work in the general theory of Banach algebras. I am interested in their algebraic structure, and in the automatic continuity of homomorphisms between Banach algebras. The algebraic structure involves questions on the decomposition of non-semisimple Banach algebras into semisimple and radical parts. It will be seen that work in this area is based in functional analysis, but has an algebraic flavour.