Roberto Rubio Núñez

I am a graduate student in the Mathematical Institute and at New College, Oxford University. I am working on generalized geometry under the supervision of Nigel Hitchin, thanks to a scholarship from Foundation Caja Madrid.

I am already a doctor in Mathematics by the University Autónoma of Madrid. My PhD thesis "Higgs bundles and Hermitian symmetric spaces'' was supervised by Óscar García-Prada at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences* of Madrid.

Thirty-five years ago, when I arrived at Indiana University, a senior faculty member took me aside and gave me some advice. "Ewing," he said, "here are five things you ought to do in the next few years if you want to be a mathematician." Publish sensibly, discover constantly, travel extensively, talk widely, teach passionately. Do those things, he said, and mathematics becomes a part of your life - not just a job, but a profession. That was good advice.

-John Ewing

Between 2006 and 2010 I also held a fellowship at the Residencia de Estudiantes, a cross between a cultural centre and a college which offers scholarships for artists and researchers in all disciplines. Read some history here and look out for the call for applications (by May-June).

* The ICMAT is a joint research institute of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spanish National Research Council) and three Madrid universities: the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.