Paul Seidel

Paul Seidel
Paul Seidel
Born	1970 (age 50–51); Florence, Italy
Alma mater	University of Oxford; University of Heidelberg
Awards	Simons Investigator (2012); Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012); Veblen Prize in Geometry (2010); EMS Prize (2000);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Chicago; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Simon Donaldson

Paul Seidel (born December 30, 1970) is a Swiss-Italian mathematician. He is a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He used to be a member of the mathematics faculty at the University of Chicago.

Career

Seidel attended Heidelberg University, where he received his Diplom under supervision of Albrecht Dold in 1994. He then pursued his Ph.D. studies at the University of Oxford under supervision of Simon Donaldson (Thesis: Floer Homology and the Symplectic Isotopy Problem) in 1998.

In 2000, Seidel was awarded the EMS Prize.[1] In 2010, he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry "for his fundamental contributions to symplectic geometry and, in particular, for his development of advanced algebraic methods for computation of symplectic invariants."[2] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society[3] and a Simons Investigator.[4]

Seidel is married to Ju-Lee Kim, who is also a professor of mathematics at MIT.[5]

Fukaya Categories and Picard-Lefschetz Theory, European Mathematical Society, 2008[6]

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