Biography
Dr Jamshid Derakhshan was a mathematical prodigy who was self-taught in mathematics and started proving results in mathematical logic and set theory from age 13. He studied for his DPhil (PhD) in mathematics at the University of Oxford from age 17 without doing any undergraduate degree, and got his Doctoral degree at the age of 21 becoming the third youngest mathematics PhD in Oxford University history (after Ruth Lawrence and Don Zagier).
His prizes and honours include the Senior Mathematical Prize and the Johnson University Prize of the University of Oxford for his D.Phil Thesis; the Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; and visiting positions at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES), Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
Here is the link to his webpage: https://jamshidderakhshan.github.io
Positions
- Lecturer in Pure Mathematics
Subjects
- Mathematics
