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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

Paraconformal geometry of nth-order ODEs, and exotic holonomy in dimension four
M Dunajski, P Tod
– Journal of Geometry and Physics
(2006)
56,
1790
Einstein–Maxwell dilaton metrics from three-dimensional Einstein–Weyl structures
M Dunajski
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2006)
23,
2833
A class of Einstein-Weyl spaces associated to an integrable system of hydrodynamic type (vol 51, pg 126, 2004)
M Dunajski
– J GEOM PHYS
(2005)
55,
135
A dispersionless integrable system associated to Diff(S1) gauge theory
M Dunajski, G Sparling
– Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
(2005)
343,
129
Reduced dynamics of Ward solitons
M Dunajski, NS Manton
– Nonlinearity
(2005)
18,
1677
Oriented Straight Lines and Twistor Correspondence
M Dunajski
– Geometriae Dedicata
(2005)
112,
239
Solitons and admissible families of rational curves in twistor spaces
M Dunajski, S Gindikin, LJ Mason
– Nonlinearity
(2004)
18,
543
A class of Einstein-Weyl spaces associated to an integrable system of hydrodynamic type
M Dunajski
– Journal of Geometry and Physics
(2004)
51,
126
Twistor theory of hyper-Kähler metrics with hidden symmetries
M Dunajski, LJ Mason
– Journal of Mathematical Physics
(2003)
44,
3430
Harmonic functions, central quadrics and twistor theory
M Dunajski
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2003)
20,
3427
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Room

B2.14

Telephone

01223 337884