Tom Bridgeland

Who is Tom Bridgeland?

Tom Bridgeland is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College. Previously he was a professor at Sheffield University. He did his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where he stayed for a post doctoral position. His research interest is algebraic geometry, focusing on properties of derived categories of coherent sheaves on algebraic varieties. He won the Adams Prize in 2007.

His most-cited papers are on stability conditions, on triangulated categories and K3 surfaces; in the first he defines the idea of a 'stability condition' on a triangulated category, and demonstrates that the set of all stability conditions on a fixed category form a manifold, whilst in the second he describes one connected component of the space of stability conditions on the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on a complex algebraic K3 surface.