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Simon Salamon joined King's College London as a Professor of Geometry in 2011 after holding a similar position at Politecnico di Torino since 2000. He completed his doctorate under the supervision of Nigel Hitchin and has worked at prestigious institutions including Maryland, Pisa, and Princeton. He has also held a lectureship at the University of Oxford and was briefly a reader at Imperial College London. Salamon was the Head of the Mathematics Department at King's College London from 2013 to 2017. His primary research focuses on differential geometry with particular emphasis on the study of manifolds, especially Riemannian and complex ones, often defined via the action of Lie groups. His current work involves the construction of Ricci-flat metrics and contributions to the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy, Geometry, Analysis, and Physics. Salamon's research interests encompass Twistor spaces, projective geometry, complex manifolds, quaternionic geometries, harmonic maps, and combinatorial geometry. He is also involved in mathematical software visualization projects.
King's College London • London, ENG
Joined King's College London as a Professor of Geometry.
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