Paul Seidel

Paul Seidel (born 1970) is a Swiss-Italian mathematician who specializes in homological mirror symmetry and is a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Diplom at Heidelberg University in 1994 under Albrecht Dold and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in 1998 under Simon Donaldson with a thesis titled Floer Homology and the Symplectic Isotopy Problem. He worked at the CNRS from 1999 to 2002, at Imperial College London, then at the University of Chicago from 2003 to 2007, before moving to MIT in 2007. He was awarded the EMS Prize in 2000 and in 2010 the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry for his fundamental contributions to symplectic geometry and his development of algebraic methods for computing symplectic invariants. He became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a Simons Investigator in 2012. His monograph Fukaya Categories and Picard-Lefschetz Theory was published by the European Mathematical Society in 2008.