Professor Simon Salamon

Professor Simon Salamon

Treasurer

Professor of Geometry, King's College London

Email: simon.salamon@kcl.ac.uk

DPhil: University of Oxford, 1980

Previous appointments: fixed-term posts at the University of Maryland, SNS Pisa, IAS Princeton. Lecturer and Reader, University of Oxford 1984-00; Reader, Imperial College London 2003-04; Professore ordinario, Politecnico di Torino 2000-11.

Research interests: Differential geometry, complex and quaternionic manifolds, twistor theory, Lie groups and symmetry, special holonomy and Einstein metrics. Computer graphics. 

LMS service: Editorial board 1995-98 and co-managing editor PLMS 1998-00; Treasurer 2020-25.

Additional information: Advisory board, CIRM Trento, 2008-; Co-editor-in-chief, EMS Surveys, 2014-17; Head of Department, KCL, 2013-17.

Personal statement: The Society’s income derives from publications, investments, De Morgan House, dona-tions, grants, and not least its members. Balanced financial management is needed to use this income to support both UK mathematics and international initiatives. I would continue to contribute to this rewarding task, as well as supporting the publications team and fundraising activity.