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Simon Salamon is a Professor of Geometry at King's College London, joining in 2011. Previously, he held a professorship at the Politecnico di Torino (2000–2011) and lecturing roles at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He is an emeritus fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and served as Head of the Mathematics Department at King's College London (2013–2017). His research focuses on differential geometry, algebraic geometry, and topology, with an emphasis on manifolds, Lie group actions, and Ricci-flat metrics within the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy.
Key research areas include exceptional holonomy, twistor geometry, almost complex manifolds, harmonic maps, and spinor theory. He has contributed to projects on G2 and Spin(7) structures, quaternionic geometry, and mathematical software visualization. Recent work includes studies on 3-Sasakian structures, flag manifold twistor geometry, and Horrocks bundles in quantum information theory.
He has supervised multiple research projects, including collaborations on Ricci-flat metrics and cohomogeneity-one manifolds. His work appears in journals like the Journal of Differential Geometry and Mathematische Zeitschrift. Notable contributions include the study of nilmanifolds, combinatorial geometry, and applications to theoretical physics through the Simons Foundation collaboration.
