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Professor Michael Eastwood

Federation Fellowship winner 2008

Project : Conformal differential geometry.

Current institution : The University of Adelaide .

Host institution : The Australian National University .

Primary research field : Mathematics.

Professor Eastwood is one of the world's leading experts in conformal differential geometry. His work on the development of transform methods linking mathematical physics, differential geometry, harmonic analysis and special function theory is internationally acclaimed.

Professor Eastwood's new research will focus on the interaction between geometry, differential equations and symmetry in conformal differential geometry. Advances in this area will provide essential tools in fundamental science and establish novel links between neighbouring fields of mathematics.

Professor Eastwood obtained his PhD in mathematics at Princeton University in the US . He then worked as a Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute of University of Oxford in the UK , before joining The University of Adelaide in 1985. He has been awarded several ARC Fellowships, including three Senior Research Fellowships and one Australian Professorial Fellowship.

In 1992, Professor Eastwood was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal for distinguished research in the mathematical sciences and in 2001 he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.