Professor Martin Bridson
MA, MS, PhD, FRS
Honorary Fellow
Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics
Martin Bridson was an undergraduate at Hertford College (BA 1986).
He did his graduate work at Cornell University in New York (MS 1988, PhD 1991) and was subsequently an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and a Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. He twice spent a year at the University of Geneva as a Visiting Professor. Until 2001 he held the title Professor of Topology in Oxford. He left for a Chair in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London, returning in 2007 as the first Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics.
His honours include the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society (1999), the Forder Lectureship of the New Zealand Mathematical Society (2005), and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012). He gave an Abel Prize Lecture in Oslo in 2009 and the Erwin Schroedinger Lecture in Vienna in 2011. In 2006 he was an Invited Speaker at the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians.
Professor Bridson was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2015 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016. He was elected “for playing a leading role in establishing geometric group theory as a major field of mathematics, proving landmark theorems and solving long-standing problems in adjacent areas.”