Chris Daw
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+44 (0) 118 378 5352
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Associate Professor
- Research Division Lead
- LMS Correspondent
Office
Room 214Building location
JJ ThomsonAreas of interest
- Arithmetic geometry
- Number theory
- Model theory
- Ergodic theory
- Algebraic groups
- Unlikely intersections in Shimura varieties
Research centres and groups
Number TheoryResearch projects
My research focuses on certain mathematical objects known as Shimura varieties. Shimura varieties arise in many guises, but they may be most familiar as the parameter spaces of abelian varieties. Abelian varieties are central objects in number theory — the simplest abelian varieties, known as elliptic curves, are now at the heart of modern cryptography. For this reason, and others, questions regarding the geometry of Shimura varieties can inspire and illuminate many questions in number theory and beyond.
Background
| 2014 - 2016 | Hodge Fellow, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques |
| 2016 - 2017 | EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford |
| 2016 - 2017 | Junior Research Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford |
| 2017 - 2018 | Academic Visitor, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford |
| 2018 - | Visiting Research Fellow, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford |
| 2025 | Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
Academic qualifications
MSci Mathematics, University College London (2010)
PhD Mathematics, University College London (2014)
Professional bodies/affiliations
Member, London Mathematical Society