| Frances Kirwan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 (age 52–53) |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Atiyah |
Frances Clare Kirwan, FRS (born 1959) is a British mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Educated at Oxford High School, she studied at the University of Cambridge. She took a D.Phil at Oxford in 1984, supervised by Michael Atiyah.[1] From 1983 to 1985 she held a Junior Fellowship at Harvard, and from 1983 to 1986 a Fellowship at Magdalen College, before later becoming a Fellow of Balliol College.
In 1996 she was appointed a University Professor of Mathematics. From 2004-2006 she was President of the London Mathematical Society, the second-youngest president in the society's history.[2] In 2005, she received a five-year EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship, to support her research on the moduli spaces of complex algebraic curves.[3]
Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry.