| Dawid Kielak | |
| Nationality: | Polish |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | University of Oxford |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Martin Bridson |
| Known For: | pure mathematics, geometric group theory |
| Awards: | Whitehead Prize (2022) Frontiers of Science Award (2023) |
Dawid Kielak (Polish:) is a Polish mathematician and Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford as well as a Tutorial Fellow of Hertford College. His research interests include geometric group theory and the theory of group rings.[1]
He completed his undergraduate degree in St. Peter's College and his PhD degree in Magdalen College, Oxford. He subsequently continued his career in Warsaw (2012), Bonn (2012–2015), and Bielefeld (2015–2020) before returning to Oxford where he joined the university's Mathematical Institute.[2]
He is a member of the London Mathematical Society and the European Mathematical Society.
He is known for formulating a mathematical theorem allowing for the recognition of spaces, which after minor modifications, behave like spacetime in Einstein's theory of relativity.[3]
In 2022, he was awarded the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society for "his striking, original and fundamental contributions to the fields of geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology, and in particular for his work on automorphism groups of discrete groups and fibrings of manifolds and groups".[4]
In 2023, he became the co-recipient of the Frontiers of Science Award together with Marek Kaluba (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Piotr W. Nowak (Polish Academy of Sciences) for their research in the field of algebraic and geometric topology. The award was presented at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing.[5]
In September 2023 Kielak was awarded a Title of Distinction of Professor of Pure Mathematics by the University of Oxford.[6]