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Mini CV - Peter Topping

Previous positions:

  • Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland (Oct.’96 - Sept.’97)
  • Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France (Oct.’97-Aug.’98, EPDI fellow)
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, USA (Aug. ’98 - June ’99)
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA (July ’99 - June ’00) - Assistant Professor

Visiting positions:

  • Université de Nice, France. (1 month, Jan.-Feb. ’05, visiting professorship.)
  • Max Planck Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany. (6 months, Oct. '05 - April. '06.)
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France. (1 month, May-June ’08, visiting professorship.)
  • SLMath, Berkeley, California. (3 months, Aug. '24 - Nov. '24, as Chern professor.)

Prizes/honours:

  • Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society, 2005.
  • Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2006.
  • Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, 2014.

Research grants over 100K:

As the Principal Investigator:

  • EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (Oct. ’01 - Sept. ’06) - Amount: £205,695
  • Leverhulme Research Leadership Award (Oct. ’07 - Dec. ’12) - Amount: £794,072
  • EPSRC Programme grant (Jan. '13 - Dec. '18) - Amount: £1,551,044, or £1,929,398 fEC.
  • EPSRC responsive mode grant (Sept. '20 - Aug. 23) - Amount £453,347 fEC.

As Co-Investigator:

  • Warwick Symposium on Low Dimensional Geometry and Topology (Sept. ’06 - Aug. ’07) - Amount: £143,007
  • EPSRC network grant (July '21 - June '24) - Amount £308,676