Martin Bridson

Education and early life

Bridson is a native of the Isle of Man. He was educated at St Ninian's High School, Douglas, then Hertford College, Oxford, and Cornell University, receiving a Master of Arts degree from Oxford in 1986, and a Master of Science degree in 1988 followed by a PhD in 1991 from Cornell. In 2016, Bridson became only the second Manxman to ever be elected to the Royal Society, after Edward Forbes. In 2020, he was elected to Academia Europaea. With André Haefliger, he won the 2020 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for the highly influential book Metric Spaces of Non-positive Curvature, published by Springer-Verlag in 1999.

Honours and awards Bridson was an invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006. 2016 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 2014 Elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. 1999 Whitehead Prize 2012 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2020 Elected Member of Academia Europaea 2020 Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society