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Address
- Department of Mathematics,
- Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences,
- University of Surrey,
- Guildford, GU2 7XH,
- United Kingdom.
- E-mail: j.grant@surrey.ac.uk.
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Academic career
- From January 2013: Reader in Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey.
- 1/05/2011-31/12/2012 Postdoctoral position, Gravitationsphysik,
Universität Wien, Austria.
- 1/12/2010-30/04/2011 Postdoctoral position, Fakultät für Mathematik,
Universität Wien, Austria.
- 1/12/2009-30/11/2010 Postdoctoral position, Institut für Grundlagen der Bauingenieurwissenschaften,
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria.
- 1/2/2008-30/11/2009 Postdoctoral position, Fakultät für Mathematik,
Universität Wien, Austria.
- 1/10/2007-31/1/2008 Visiting Professor, Fakultät für Mathematik,
Universität Wien, Austria.
- 1/3/2005-30/9/2007 Postdoctoral position, Fakultät für Mathematik,
Universität Wien, Austria.
- 2003-2005 Research Fellow, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Aberdeen.
- 2002-2003 EDGE Young Researcher Fellowship,
Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata,
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy.
- 1997-2002 Postdoctoral Positions & Temporary Lectureship, Department of Mathematics, University of Hull.
- 1995-1997 Sir Wilfred Hall Fellowship, University of Newcastle.
- 1994-1995 Postdoctoral Position, Department of Physics, CINVESTAV del IPN, Mexico City.
- 1993-1994 Postdoctoral Position, Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
I have been an invited researcher at the University of Vienna (6 months 2016-17, 6 months 2017-18), Paris VI University (3 months in 2010), the California Institute of Technology (6 weeks in 1992 and 1993), the University of Vienna (2 months in 2014), the Erwin Schrödinger Institute (6 weeks in 2011, 6 weeks in 2017) and Keio University (1 month in 2004). I was a Visiting Scholar in St. John's College, Oxford for one month in Summer 2014.
I have also been invited for short term research visits at the University of L'Aquila (2 weeks in 2006), the Erwin Schrödinger Institute (2 weeks in 2012, one week in 2014), the University of Bonn (2 weeks in 2016), University of Innsbruck (1 week in 2005), the Banff International Research Station (1 week in 2007), the Albert Einstein Institute (1 week in 2012), Paris VI University (six visits in 2009, four visits in 2010, three visits in 2011, three visits in 2012) and the University of Vienna (five visits in 2013, three visits in 2014, five visits in 2015).
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Academic Qualifications
- 2009 Habilitation, Integrable systems and differential geometry, Universität Wien.
- 1993 Ph.D., General Relativity, University of Cambridge. Thesis supervisor: Professor S.W. Hawking.
- 1990 Part III of Mathematical Tripos (with Distinction), University of Cambridge.
- 1989 B.Sc. (Hons.), 1st Class, Mathematics Physics, University of Edinburgh.
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Teaching
Lecture courses
- 2014-17 General Topology, University of Surrey.
- 2013-17 Real Analysis 2, University of Surrey.
- 2012 Seminar über ausgewählte Kapitel der Relativitätstheorie. (The initial value problem in General Relativity), Fakultät für Physik, Universität Wien, Austria.
- 2008 Global Lorentzian Geometry II, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Wien, Austria.
- 2007-2008 Global Lorentzian Geometry I, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Wien, Austria.
- 1999-2000 Mathematics for Electrical Engineers III, University of Hull.
- 1997-2002 Fractals and Chaos, University of Hull.
Ph.D. students:
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Research interests
- Mathematics and mathematical physics: geometry, analysis and general relativity.
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Hobbies
- Films; books; Baroque, avant-garde and contemporary classical music.
- 1999 All-Britain Virtuoso accordion champion (My former teacher).
This page was last updated on 10 December, 2017.