Mihalis Dafermos

Not to be confused with Constantine Dafermos.

Mihalis Dafermos (Greek: Μιχάλης Δαφέρμος; born October 1976)^[1] is a Greek mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and holds the Lowndean Chair of Astronomy and Geometry at the University of Cambridge.^[2]

Mihalis Dafermos
Dafermos in 2006
Born	October 1976 (1976-10) (age 49)
Nationality	Greek
Alma mater	Harvard University Princeton University
Awards	Adams Prize (2005) Whitehead Prize (2009)
Scientific career
Institutions	MIT University of Cambridge Princeton University
Thesis	Stability and Instability of the Cauchy Horizon for the Spherically Symmetric Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Field Equations (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Demetrios Christodoulou
Website	www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~md384/

He studied mathematics at Harvard University and was awarded a BA in 1997. His PhD thesis titled Stability and Instability of the Cauchy Horizon for the Spherically Symmetric Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Field Equations was written under the supervision of Demetrios Christodoulou at Princeton University.^[3]

He has won the Adams Prize writing on the subject Differential Equations in 2004 and the Whitehead Prize in 2009 for "his work on the rigorous analysis of hyperbolic partial differential equations in general relativity."^[4] In 2015 he was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[5]