Martin Bridson#
| Membership Number: | 5266 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/martin.bridson |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0080-9059 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 President, Clay Mathematics Institute
- 2015 - 2018 Head of Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
- 2007 Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Oxford
- 2007 Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
- 2002 - 2007 Professor of Pure Mathematics, Imperial College London
- 1999 - 2002 Professor of Topology, University of Oxford
- 1997 - 2002 EPSRC Advanced Fellow, Oxford
- 1994 - 2001 Tutorial Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
- 1992 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Princeton University
- 1991 - 1992 Instructor, Princeton University
Fields of Scholarship
- Geometry and topology
- Spaces of non-positive curvature
- Pure mathematics
- Geometric group theory
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition, American Mathematical Society (with Andre Haefliger)
- 2018 Honorary Fellow, Hertford College Oxford
- 2016 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2015 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
- 2012 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2009 Abel Prize Lecturer
- 2007 - 2012 EPSRC Senior Fellowship
- 2006 Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid
- 2012 Clay Senior Scholar in Residence, PCMI
- 2012 Britton Lectures
- 2011 Erwin Schrodinger Lecture
- 2009 Marker Lectures
- 2005 LMS-NZMS Forder Lecturer
- 1997 - 2002 EPSRC Advanced Fellowship
- 1999 London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize
