CURRICULUM VITAE

Privatdoz. Dr. James D.E. Grant

Address

School of Mathematics and Physics,

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences,

University of Surrey,

Guildford, GU2 7XH,

United Kingdom.

E-mail: j.grant@surrey.ac.uk.

Academic career

From January 2013: Reader in Department of Mathematics (now School of Mathematics and Physics), 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.

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.

Teaching

Lecture courses

2022-25 Algebra, University of Surrey.

2019-22 Manifolds and Topology, University of Surrey.

2014-19 General Topology, University of Surrey.

2013-25 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:

Bakk. Mag. Annegret Burtscher (2010 - 2014). Jointly supervised with Prof. P.G. LeFloch (Paris VI, CNRS).
Mag. Nathalie Tassotti (Sept 2011 - Jan 2015).
Romeo Segnan Dalmasso (Jan 2020 - Jan 2023). Principle supervisor: Prof. Diego Conti.

Summer project students:

2013: Elyse Rogers, Gravitational collapse in General Relativity, funded by EPSRC.
2018: Luci Krnic, Mathematical aspects of topological data analysis, funded by EPSRC.
2019: Lewis Napper, Curvature and Low-Regularity Geometry, funded by LMS.
2021: Jeffrey Thompson, Scalar curvature and spin structures on piecewise linear manifolds, funded by EPSRC.

Undergraduate project students:

2014-15: Darren White, Isoperimetric and Sobolev inequalities (B.Sc. project)
2017-18: Daniel Mansfield, An introduction to minimal surfaces with a view to minimal cones (M.Math. project)
2018-19: George Dutton, The Nash-Kuiper embedding theorem and convex integration theory (M.Math. project)
2019-20: Pippa Brown, The Nash embedding theorem (M.Math. project)
2020-21: Elliott Sullinge-Farrall, The Kolmogorov-Arnold Representation Theorem (M.Math. project)

Research interests

Mathematics and mathematical physics: geometry, analysis and general relativity.

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 23 April, 2024.