Dr Mehdi Yazdi

Biography

Mehdi Yazdi obtained his PhD in Pure Mathematics from Princeton University in 2017 under the supervision of Professor David Gabai. He then worked at the University of Oxford as a Glasstone Research Fellow in Science, followed by a Titchmarsh Research Fellowship, and a UKRI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. He joined King’s College London in 2021 as a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics.

Research Interests

• Low-dimensional topology, geometry, and dynamics
• Foliations
• 3-dimensional manifolds
• Mapping class groups of surfaces
• Algorithmic aspects of the above

Further Information

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