CURRICULUM VITAE
Privatdoz. Dr. James D.E. Grant
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Address
- Gravitationsphysik,
- Fakultät für Physik,
- Universität Wien,
- Boltzmanngasse 5,
- 1090 Wien,
- Österreich.
- E-mail: james.grant@univie.ac.at.
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Personal
- Citizenship: British (Scottish).
- Born: Thursday 5th October, 1967, Duns, Scotland.
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Academic Qualifications
- 1989 B.Sc. (Hons.), 1st Class, Mathematics Physics, University of Edinburgh.
- 1990 Part III of Mathematical Tripos (with Distinction), University of Cambridge.
- 1993 Ph.D., General Relativity, University of Cambridge. Thesis supervisor: Professor S.W. Hawking.
- 2009 Habilitation, Integrable systems and differential geometry, Universität Wien.
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Postdoctoral Career
- 1993-1994 Postdoctoral Position, Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
- 1994-1995 Postdoctoral Position, Department of Physics, CINVESTAV del IPN, Mexico City.
- 1995-1997 Sir Wilfred Hall Fellowship, University of Newcastle.
- 1997-2002 Postdoctoral Positions & Temporary Lectureship, Department of Mathematics, University of Hull.
- 2002-2003 Young Researcher Fellowship,
Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata,
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy. Funded by the European Differential Geometry Endeavour (EDGE).
- 2003-2005 Research Fellow, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Aberdeen.
- 1/3/2005-30/9/2007 Postdoctoral position, Fakultät für Mathematik,
Universität Wien, Austria.
- 1/10/2007-31/1/2008 Visiting Professor, Fakultät für Mathematik,
Universität Wien, Austria.
- 1/2/2008-30/11/2009 Postdoctoral position, Fakultät für Mathematik,
Universität Wien, Austria.
- 1/12/2009-30/11/2010, Institut für Grundlagen der Bauingenieurwissenschaften,
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria.
- 1/12/2010-30/04/2011 Postdoctoral position, Fakultät für Mathematik,
Universität Wien, Austria.
- 1/05/2011-Present Postdoctoral position, Gravitationsphysik,
Universität Wien, Austria.
I have been an invited researcher at Paris VI University (3 months in 2010), the California Institute of Technology (6 weeks in 1992 and 1993), the Erwin Schrödinger Institute (6 weeks in 2011) and Keio University (1 month in 2004). I have also been invited for short term research visits at the University of L'Aquila (2 weeks in 2006), University of Innsbruck (1 week in 2005), the Banff International Research Station (1 week in 2007) and Paris VI University (six visits in 2009, four visits in 2010, three visits in 2011, two visits in 2012).
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Teaching
- 1990-91 Supervisor, Part II and Part III General Relativity, University of Cambridge.
- 1996-97 Supervisor, Third Year Mathematical Methods, University of Newcastle.
- 1997-2002 Fractals and Chaos Lecture Course, University of Hull.
- 1999-2000 Mathematics for Electrical Engineers III Lecture Course, University of Hull.
- 2004 Tutor of first year undergraduate course Calculus and Access Mathematics course, University of Aberdeen.
- 2007-2008 Global Lorentzian Geometry I Lecture course, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Wien, Austria.
- 2008 Global Lorentzian Geometry II Lecture course, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Wien, Austria.
- 2010-2011 Tutor of General Relativity II, Universität Wien.
- 2011 Tutor of Mathematical Methods for Physicists I, Universität Wien.
- 2011-2012 Tutor of Mathematical Methods for Physicists II, Universität Wien.
- 2012 Tutor of General Relativity II, Universität Wien.
Ph.D. students:
Diploma student: I unoffically supervised the Diploma thesis, Ricci curvature comparison in Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry, of Jan-Hendrik Treude, jointly with Prof. R. Steinbauer (Wien).
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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).