!!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\\ \\