Martin Bridson - Curriculum Vitae#
- President of the Clay Mathematics Institute, since October 2018
- Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Oxford, since 2007
- Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford, since 2007
Awards and Distinctions (selected)
- Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (with Andre Haefliger) 2020
- Fellow of the Royal Society, 2016
- Honorary Fellow, Hertford College Oxford, 2018
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2015
- Clay Senior Scholar in Residence, PCMI 2012
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2012
- Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid 2006 • Abel Prize Lecturer, 2009
- EPSRC Senior Fellowship, 2007–12
- London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize, 1999
- EPSRC Advanced Fellowship, 1997–2002
Education
- Douglas High School, Isle of Man, 1979-83
- Hertford College, Oxford, 1983-86, BA (1st class), MA
- Cornell University, New York, 1986-1991 (MS 1988; PhD 1991)
Previous Appointments
- Head of the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 2015-’18 • 2002-’07 Imperial College London. Professor of Pure Mathematics
- 1994-’01 University of Oxford. Tutorial Fellow, Pembroke College;
- EPSRC Advanced Fellow (’97-’02); Professor of Topology (’99-’01)
- 1992-’97 Princeton University. Assistant Professor (on leave ’92-’93, ’94-’96). • 1992-’93 Universite ́ de Gene`ve. Visiting Professor.
- 1991-’92 Princeton University. Instructor
Sabbatical Position
- 2006-’07, Universite ́ de Gene`ve/EPFL (Lausanne). Research Interests: Geometric group theory, topology, spaces of non-positive curvature
Major Grants
- EPSRC Senior Fellowship, 2007-12; Advanced Fellowship, 1997-2002
- EPSRC Platform Grant, 2010-15
- EPSRC grant Geometry and Analysis in Group Theory (with C. Drutu), 2010–2014
- EPSRC grant Geometric Group Theory, 1998–2001
- Principal Investigator, NSF grant Geometric Group Theory, 1994–97
- NSF grant Topology of Manifolds (with Bill Browder), 1992–94
- FNRS (Swiss) Fellowships, 1992-93 (with A. Haefliger) and 2006-07 (with P. de la Harpe)
- Alfred P. Sloane Dissertation Fellowship, 1990-91
