Niky Kamran

Niky Kamran (born May 22, 1959) is a Belgian and Canadian mathematician whose research concerns geometric analysis, differential geometry, and mathematical physics. He is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University.

Early life and education Kamran was born in Brussels, Belgium. He earned a licentiate in mathematics from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1980.

Career In 1986 he became an assistant professor at Waterloo but then, after spending a year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, he moved to McGill in 1989. He was promoted to full professor in 1995, was awarded a James McGill Professorship in 2003 which he held until 2024, after which he was named Distinguished James McGill Professor as of 2024. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002 and was awarded a Killam Fellowship from 2006 to 2008. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. In 2014, Kamran was the winner of the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize, That same academy had awarded him in 1988 the mathematics prize of its annual competition for a memoir on the equivalence problem of Élie Cartan and its applications.