Professor Sir Simon Donaldson is a globally celebrated mathematician specialising in differential geometry.
After graduating from Cambridge and earning his PhD from Oxford, his breakthrough graduate work became a spectacular, unexpected event in 20th-century mathematics. He proved that 4-dimensional spaces have unique geometric phenomena absent in any other dimension.
He was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Oxford at age 28. A recipient of the prestigious Fields Medal (1986), he was later knighted in 2012. He is currently Chair in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London, and his numerous awards include the Breakthrough Prize and the Wolf Prize.
