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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

  • Since 2021  University Professor of Mathematical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
  • Since 2020  University Reader in Mathematical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
  • 2018-2020 University Lecturer  Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
  • 2014-18 Senior Research Associate Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
  • 2011  Title of Professor, awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland.
  • 2006-2014, Newton Trust Lecturer in Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
  • 2005 Habilitation.
  • 2003-present, Fellow, Tutor, Director of Studies, Senior Lecturer Clare College Cambridge.
  • 1999-2002 Tutorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics and the Senior Mathematics Tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford. University Lecturer in Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, Oxford.
  • 1995-1998 DPhil: Merton College and Mathematical Institute Oxford.

Research

Twistor Theory, Integrable Systems, Differential Geometry.

Selected Publications

  • Dunajski M., and Tod, K. P. (2019) Conformally isometric embeddings and Hawking temperature. Class. Quant. Grav. 36, 125005.
  • Atiyah, M., Dunajski, M. and Mason, L. (2017) Twistor theory at fifty: from contour integrals to twistor strings. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 473. 20170530 
  • Dunajski M. and Penrose, R. (2017) On the quadratic invariant of binary sextics. Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 162, 435445.
  • Dunajski, M. (2009) Solitons, Instantons & Twistors. Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Oxford University Press.
  • Bryant, R. L., Dunajski, M. and Eastwood, M. (2009)  Metrisability of two-dimensional projective structures, J. Differential Geometry 83, 465-499
  • Dunajski, M. (2002) Four-manifolds with a parallel real spinor, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A 458, 1205-1222
  • Dunajski, M., Mason, L.J., and Tod, K.P. (2001) Einstein--Weyl geometry, the dKP equation and twistor theory, J. Geom. Phys. 37, 63-93.

Publications

On the 7th order ODE with submaximal symmetry
M Dunajski, V Sokolov
– Journal of Geometry and Physics
(2011)
61,
1258
Scalar-flat Kähler metrics with conformal Bianchi V symmetry
M Dunajski, P Plansangkate
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2011)
28,
125004
Optical metrics and projective equivalence
S Casey, M Dunajski, G Gibbons, C Warnick
– Physical Review D
(2011)
83,
084047
Cosmological Einstein-Maxwell instantons and euclidean supersymmetry: beyond self-duality
M Dunajski, JB Gutowski, WA Sabra, P Tod
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
131
Cosmological Einstein-Maxwell instantons and Euclidean supersymmetry: anti-self-dual solutions
M Dunajski, J Gutowski, W Sabra, P Tod
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2010)
28,
025007
GL(2, R) STRUCTURES, G2 GEOMETRY AND TWISTOR THEORY
M Dunajski, M Godlinski
– The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
(2010)
63,
101
GL(2, R) STRUCTURES, G2 GEOMETRY AND TWISTOR THEORY
M Dunajski, M Godlinski
– The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
(2010)
63,
101
Solitons, instantons, and twistors
M Dunajski
(2010)
Four dimensional metrics conformal to Kahler
M Dunajski, P Tod
– Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
(2010)
148,
485
Metrisability of two-dimensional projective structures
R Bryant, M Dunajski, M Eastwood
– Journal of Differential Geometry
(2009)
83,
465
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Research Groups

High Energy Physics
Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B2.14

Telephone

01223 337884