Research Students of Nigel Hitchin
* = part supervised
Simon Salamon, University of Oxford, 1980, Quaternionic manifolds
José Seade*, University of Oxford, 1980,The quotient of some classical groups by discrete subgroups and homotopy
Simon Donaldson*, University of Oxford, 1982, The Yang-Mills equations on Kähler manifolds
Jacques Hurtubise, University of Oxford, 1982, Some problems linking algebraic and differential geometry
Henrik Pedersen, University of Oxford, 1985, Construction of Einstein metrics and Einstein-Weyl geometries
Yat-Sun Poon, University of Oxford, 1985, Compact self-dual manifolds with positive scalar curvature
William Oxbury, University of Oxford, 1987, Stable bundles and branched coverings over Riemann surfaces
Andrew Dancer, University of Oxford, 1990, Nahm's equations and hyperkähler geometry
Oscar García-Prada*, University of Oxford, 1991, The geometry of the vortex equation
Jorgen Ellegaard Andersen*, University of Oxford, 1992, Jones-Witten theory and the Thurston compactification of Teichmüller space
Peter Scheinost*, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 1992, Metaplectic quantization of the moduli spaces of flat and parabolic bundles
Yuri Bozhkov, University of Warwick
1992, Specific complex geometry of certain complex surfaces and threefolds
Peter Gothen, University of Warwick, 1995, The topology of Higgs bundle moduli spaces
David Calderbank, University of Warwick, 1995, Geometrical aspects of spinor and twistor analysis
Sergio Santa Cruz, University of Warwick, 1995, Construction of hyperkähler metrics on complex coadjoint orbits
Tamás Hausel, University of Cambridge, 1998,
Geometry of the moduli space of Higgs bundles
David Chatterjee, University of Cambridge, 1998, On the construction of abelian gerbs
Peter Baldwin, University of Cambridge, 1999, L2-solutions of Dirac equations
Marcos Jardim*, University of Oxford, 1999, Nahm transform of doubly-periodic instantons
Philip Boalch, University of Oxford, 1999, Symplectic geometry and isomonodromic deformations
Birte Feix, University of Cambridge, 1999, Hyperkähler metrics on cotangent bundles
Justin Sawon, University of Cambridge, 1999, Rozansky-Witten invariants of hyperkähler manifolds
Patrick Baier, University of Oxford, 2001, Special Lagrangian Geometry
Juhani Bonsdorff, University of Oxford 2002, Fourier transform for Higgs bundles
Marco Gualtieri , Univeristy of Oxford 2003, Generalized complex structures
Gil Cavalcanti, University of Oxford 2004, New aspects of the ddc-lemma
Frederik Witt, University of Oxford 2005, Special metric structures and closed forms
Daryl Noyce, Universtity of Oxford 2005 (MSc),
L2-harmonic forms on Ricci-flat manifolds
Stuart Armstrong, University of Oxford 2006, Holonomy of Cartan connections
Oliver Nash, University of Oxford 2006, Differential geometry of monopole moduli spaces
David Baraglia, University of Oxford 2010, G2 geometry and integrable systems
Ana Cristina Castro Ferreira, University of Oxford 2010
Riemannian geometry with skew torsion
Steven Rayan, University of Oxford 2011 Geometry of co-Higgs bundles
Laura Schaposnik, University of Oxford 2013 Spectral data for G-Higgs bundles
Roberto Rubio, University of Oxford 2014, Generalized geometry of type Bn
Jakob Blaavand, University of Oxford 2015, The Dirac -- Higgs bundle
Lucas Branco, University of Oxford 2017, Higgs bundles, Lagrangians and mirror symmetry