Calum Spicer

Calum Spicer is a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at King’s College London, part of the Department of Mathematics within the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences. He holds a PhD from the University of California, San Diego (2017), supervised by Professor James McKernan. Prior roles include positions at Imperial College London, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and King’s College London before his current role since 2022.

His research focuses on Birational Geometry and Holomorphic Foliations, emphasizing the Minimal Model Program (MMP) for foliations, adjunction theory, and applications to algebraic surfaces and threefolds. His work bridges algebraic geometry and differential geometry, addressing structural properties of foliations and their cohomological behaviors.

Recent publications explore foliation adjunction, effective generation of foliated surfaces, and MMP applications to co-rank 1 foliations on threefolds. He has received a prestigious New Investigator Award from the EPSRC (2023), contributing to projects totaling over £2 million. His research group collaborates internationally, with notable contributions to the understanding of adjoint structures and foliated Mori theory.

He leads the EPSRC-funded project ‘Minimal Models of Foliations’ (2023–2026), advancing foundational techniques in foliation geometry. Spicer is affiliated with King’s Geometry Group, which studies algebraic geometry, cohomology theories, and symplectic geometry.