Name of a fictional scientist with fictional publications invented and ‘working’ at an existing British university At some British university a fictional professor was invented in the 20th century. He also had is own office and his own (fictional) field of research, in which he published about three papers (in a fictional journal). I read about him a few years ago. I think that he had his own Wikipedia article (English Wikipedia). His publications were cited a few times in real publications.

The persons is similar to Albert Wormstein (Stewart &amp; Wormstein, 1992; cf. Math.SE Question) or the Poppleton University.

It is not a fictional character in a book or a movie. (Otherwise I would have asked this question on another Stack Exchange site.) But he was invented by the people working at the particular university.

I am looking for the person’s name (fictional), his field of research (fictional), and the university’s name (real).
Are you thinking of Professor Moriarty (he's from a fictional book series, but he did author two works that have been cited in the literature), or one of the three fictional winners of the first Ig Nobel Prize, Josiah S. Carberry, Paul DeFanti, and Thomas Kyle?