Martin Bridson
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Born | [2] Douglas, Isle of Man | 22 October 1964
Education | St Ninian's High School, Douglas |
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Fields | Geometric group theory |
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Thesis | Geodesics and Curvature in Metric Simplicial Complexes (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Karen Vogtmann[1] |
Doctoral students | Daniel Wise[1] |
Website | people |
Martin Robert Bridson
Education and early life
Bridson is a native of the Isle of Man.[5] He was educated at St Ninian's High School, Douglas, then Hertford College, Oxford, and Cornell University,[2] receiving a Master of Arts degree from Oxford in 1986, and a Master of Science degree in 1988 followed by a PhD in 1991 from Cornell.[6][1] His PhD thesis was supervised by Karen Vogtmann,[1] and was entitled Geodesics and Curvature in Metric Simplicial Complexes.
Career and research
He was an assistant professor at Princeton University until 1996, was twice a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (1992 and 2006), and was Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London from 2002 to 2007. From 1993 to 2002 he was a Tutorial Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Reader (1996) then Professor of Topology (2000) in the University of Oxford. He remains a Supernumerary Fellow of Pembroke College.[7] In 2016, Bridson became only the second Manxman to ever be elected to the Royal Society, after Edward Forbes. In 2020, he was elected to Academia Europaea.[8] With André Haefliger, he won the 2020
Honours and awards
Bridson was an invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006.[citation needed]
- 2016 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[9]
- 2014 Elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10]
- 1999 Whitehead Prize
- 2012 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2020 Elected Member of Academia Europaea
- 2020 Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society[11]
References
- ^ a b c d e Martin Bridson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.250830. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Martin Bridson publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ Martin Bridson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "WEDDINGS;Julie A. Lynch, Martin R. Bridson". The New York Times. 31 December 1995.
- ^ "Bridson Martin - Magdalen College". Archived from the original on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ Bridson, Martin. "Martin R. Bridson". people.maths.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ "Martin Bridson and Endre Suli elected to Academia Europaea". maths.ox.ac.uk. 31 July 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- ^ "Martin bridson biography". Royal Society. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^ "American Mathematical Society". www.ams.org.
- ^ "Leroy P Steele Prize". www.ams.org.
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