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Paul Seidel joined the Mathematics faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2007. Before that, he held professorship appointments at Imperial College from 2002 to 2003 and at the University of Chicago from 2003 to 2007. He received his Diploma in Mathematics from Heidelberg University in 1994 and his DPhil from Oxford University in 1997 under the direction of Simon Donaldson. At MIT, Seidel co-chaired the Graduate Committee for Pure Mathematics from Fall 2012 to Spring 2013. His research interests focus on studies in symplectic topology, mirror symmetry, and homological algebra. He has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the European Mathematical Society Prize in 2000 and the Junior Faculty Mentoring Award from the University of Chicago in 2006. In 2010, he was awarded the AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry for his fundamental contributions to symplectic geometry, particularly in the development of advanced methods for the computation of symplectic invariants. Seidel was selected as a Simons Investigator in 2012 and has been an AMS Fellow since 2014. Additionally, he held the Norman Levinson Professorship from 2014 to 2024 and was a Radcliffe fellow during the 2014-15 academic year.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Full professor in the Department of Mathematics focusing on advanced studies in symplectic topology and mirror symmetry.