Nicholas Shepherd-Barron

Nicholas Ian Shepherd-Barron (born 17 March 1955) is a British mathematician working in algebraic geometry and a fellow of the Royal Society. He is a professor of mathematics at King's College London, having moved there from the University of Cambridge in 2013. He was a scholar of Winchester College, obtained his bachelor's degree at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1976 and received his doctorate at the University of Warwick under Miles Reid in 1981. His research covers singularities in the minimal model program, compactification of moduli spaces, the rationality of orbit spaces including the moduli spaces of curves of genus 4 and 6, the geography of algebraic surfaces in positive characteristic including a proof of Raynaud's conjecture, and the Schottky problem at the boundary.