Martin Bridson

Martin Bridson
FRS
Martin Bridson at the Royal Society admissions day in London in 2016
Born Martin Robert Bridson
1964 (age 53–54)[1]
Douglas, Isle of Man
Education St Ninian's High School, Douglas
Alma mater University of Oxford (BA)
Cornell University (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Geometric Group Theory
Institutions University of Oxford
Thesis Geodesics and Curvature in Metric Simplicial Complexes (1991)
Doctoral advisor Karen Vogtmann[2]
Doctoral students Daniel Wise[2]
Website people.maths.ox.ac.uk/bridson

Martin Robert Bridson FRS is a Manx mathematician. He is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics and Head of the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. Specializing in geometry, topology and group theory, Bridson is best known for his work in Geometric Group Theory.[2][3][4]

Education and early life

Martin Bridson at Oberwolfach in 2013

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,[1] 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][2] His PhD thesis was supervised by Karen Vogtmann,[2] 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]

Honours and awards

Bridson was an Invited Lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006.

References

  1. 1 2 Anon (2017). Bridson, Prof. Martin Robert. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.250830. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Martin Bridson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Martin Bridson publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ↑ Martin Bridson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ "WEDDINGS;Julie A. Lynch, Martin R. Bridson".
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  7. ↑ Bridson, Martin. "Martin R. Bridson". people.maths.ox.ac.uk.
  8. ↑ "Martin bridson biography". Royal Society. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "American Mathematical Society". www.ams.org.

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