Simon Donaldson#
| Membership Number: | 1457 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/~skdona |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 - present Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College London
- Permament member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York, USA
- 1985 Wallis Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University
Fields of Scholarship
- Differential & algebraic geometry
- Global analysis
Honours and Awards
- 1985 Junior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society
- 1986 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1986 Fields Medal
- 1990 Royal Medal, Royal Society
- 1994 the Crafoord Prize
- 1999 Polya Prize, London Mathematical Society
- 2006 King Faisal International Prize
- 2008 Nemmers Prize in Mathematics
- 2009 Shaw Prize in Mathematics (jointly with Clifford Taubes)
- 2010 Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Knighted for services to mathematics
- 2014 the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
- 2020 Wolf Prize
