Career
- Since 2021 University Professor of Mathematical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
- Since 2020 University Reader in Mathematical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
- 2018-2020 University Lecturer Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
- 2014-18 Senior Research Associate Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
- 2011 Title of Professor, awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland.
- 2006-2014, Newton Trust Lecturer in Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
- 2005 Habilitation.
- 2003-present, Fellow, Tutor, Director of Studies, Senior Lecturer Clare College Cambridge.
- 1999-2002 Tutorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics and the Senior Mathematics Tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford. University Lecturer in Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, Oxford.
- 1995-1998 DPhil: Merton College and Mathematical Institute Oxford.
Research
Twistor Theory, Integrable Systems, Differential Geometry.
Selected Publications
- Dunajski M., and Tod, K. P. (2019) Conformally isometric embeddings and Hawking temperature. Class. Quant. Grav. 36, 125005.
- Atiyah, M., Dunajski, M. and Mason, L. (2017) Twistor theory at fifty: from contour integrals to twistor strings. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 473. 20170530
- Dunajski M. and Penrose, R. (2017) On the quadratic invariant of binary sextics. Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 162, 435445.
- Dunajski, M. (2009) Solitons, Instantons & Twistors. Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Oxford University Press.
- Bryant, R. L., Dunajski, M. and Eastwood, M. (2009) Metrisability of two-dimensional projective structures, J. Differential Geometry 83, 465-499
- Dunajski, M. (2002) Four-manifolds with a parallel real spinor, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A 458, 1205-1222
- Dunajski, M., Mason, L.J., and Tod, K.P. (2001) Einstein--Weyl geometry, the dKP equation and twistor theory, J. Geom. Phys. 37, 63-93.
Publications
Twistor Theory of Dancing Paths
– Symmetry Integrability and Geometry Methods and Applications
(2022)
18,
13
(doi: 10.3842/sigma.2022.027)
Quantum state reduction, and Newtonian twistor theory
– Annals of Physics.
(2022)
451,
2023
The quadric ansatz for the mn-dispersionless KP equation, and supersymmetric Einstein–Weyl spaces
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2022)
55,
105202
(doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/ac5160)
Null Kähler Geometry and Isomonodromic Deformations
– Communications in Mathematical Physics
(2021)
391,
77
(doi: 10.1007/s00220-021-04270-0)
The Kijowski-Liu-Yau quasi-local mass of the Kerr black hole horizon *
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2021)
38,
235001
(doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ac2cb6)
Variational principles for conformal geodesics
– Letters in Mathematical Physics
(2021)
111,
127
(doi: 10.1007/s11005-021-01469-z)
Conformal and Isometric Embeddings of Gravitational Instantons
– Abel Symposia
(2021)
16,
21
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-81296-6_2)
Conformal geodesics on gravitational instantons
– Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
(2021)
173,
123
(doi: 10.1017/s0305004121000463)
On Schwarzschild causality in higher dimensions
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2020)
37,
225002
(doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/abb4b8)
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