Dame Frances Kirwan#
| Membership Number: | 2579 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-dame-frances-kirwan/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 Savilian Professor of Geometry, New College, Oxford
- 2009 Emeritus fellow at Balliol
- 2004 - 2006 President of the London Mathematical Society
- 1996 University professor at Balliol College, United Kingdom
- 1984 PhD at Cambridge University
Fields of Scholarship
- Invariant theory
- Algebraic and symplectic geometry
Honours and Awards
- 2023 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award (Laureate for Europe – Mathematics) "for exceptional work in pure mathematics combining geometry and algebra in order to develop techniques to understand the classification of geometric objects"
- 2022 Honorary degree, University of St Andrews
- 2021 Sylvester Medal of The Royal Society
- 2020 Honorary degree, University of York
- 2016 Maths and Computing Suffrage Science award
- 2014 DBE for services to mathematics
- 2013 London Mathematical Society Senior Whitehead Prize
- 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
- 2005 - 2010 EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship
- 2003 - 2006 President of the London Mathematical Society
- 2001 Fellow of the Royal Society (2001)
- 1989 London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize
