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Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group

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

Twistor theory and differential equations
M Dunajski
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2009)
42,
404004
Strominger-Yau-Zaslow Geometry, Affine Spheres and Painleve III
M Dunajski, P Plansangkate
– Communications in Mathematical Physics
(2009)
290,
997
Cosmic jerk, snap and beyond
M Dunajski, G Gibbons
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2008)
25,
235012
An interpolating dispersionless integrable system
M Dunajski
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2008)
41,
315202
Multidimensional integrable systems and deformations of Lie algebra homomorphisms
M Dunajski, JDE Grant, IAB Strachan
– Journal of Mathematical Physics
(2007)
48,
093502
Moduli spaces with external fields
M Dunajski, M Kazmierczak
– Journal of Geometry and Physics
(2007)
57,
1883
Einstein-Maxwell gravitational instantons and five- dimensional solitonic strings
M Dunajski, SA Hartnoll
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2007)
24,
1841
Anti-self-dual conformal structures with null killing vectors from projective structures
M Dunajski, S West
– Communications in Mathematical Physics
(2007)
272,
85
Topology and energy of time-dependent unitons
M Dunajski, P Plansangkate
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2007)
463,
945
Anti-Self-Dual Conformal Structures in Neutral Signature
M Dunajski, S West
(2006)
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Room

B2.14

Telephone

01223 337884