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, University 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, University 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