Paul Seidel
Paul Seidel (born December 30, 1970) is a Swiss-Italian mathematician who works in symplectic geometry and homological mirror symmetry. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was born in Florence, Italy.
He studied at Heidelberg University, earning his Diplom in 1994 under Albrecht Dold. He then earned a PhD at the University of Oxford in 1998 under Simon Donaldson; his thesis was Floer Homology and the Symplectic Isotopy Problem.
His career includes positions as a researcher at CNRS (1999–2002), a professor at Imperial College London (2002–2003), the University of Chicago (2003–2007), and MIT (2007–present).
He has received several awards: the EMS Prize in 2000; the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry in 2010; he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012; and he was named a Simons Investigator in 2012.
Seidel is married to Ju-Lee Kim, who is also a mathematics professor at MIT.
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