Richard Thomas#
| Membership Number: | 4945 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~rpwt |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7585-9691 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Royal Society research professor, Imperial College London
- 2005 - present Professor, Imperial College London
- 2000 - 2008 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Imperial College London
- 1999 - 2000 Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard University
- 1997 - 1998 Junior Research Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford
- 1997 - 1998 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Fields of Scholarship
- Mathematics of string theory
- Algebraic geometry
- Moduli problems
- Mirror symmetry
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Fröhlich prize, London Mathematical Society
- 2018 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
- 2015 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2010 Invited speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians
- 2010 Wolfson Merit Award, Royal Society
- 2004 Philip Leverhulme Prize
- 2004 Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society
