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