Simon Donaldson

Sir

Simon Donaldson

FRS
Sir; Simon Donaldson; FRS
	Donaldson in 2009
Born	Simon Kirwan Donaldson; 20 August 1957; Cambridge, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA); Worcester College, Oxford (DPhil)
Known for	Topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds; Donaldson theory; Donaldson theorem; Donaldson–Thomas theory; Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau theorem; K-stability; K-stability of Fano varieties; Yau–Tian–Donaldson conjecture
Awards	Junior Whitehead Prize (1985); Fields Medal (1986); Royal Medal (1992); Crafoord Prize (1994); Pólya Prize (1999); King Faisal International Prize (2006); Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2008); Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2009); Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014); Oswald Veblen Prize (2019); Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2020)
	Scientific career
Fields	Topology
Institutions	Imperial College London; Stony Brook University; Institute for Advanced Study; Stanford University; University of Oxford
Thesis	The Yang–Mills Equations on Kähler Manifolds (1983)
Doctoral advisor	Michael Atiyah; Nigel Hitchin
Doctoral students	Oscar Garcia Prada; Dominic Joyce; Dieter Kotschick; Graham Nelson; Paul Seidel; Ivan Smith; Gábor Székelyhidi; Richard Thomas; Michael Thaddeus

Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. He is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York, and a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London.

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