Daniel Huybrechts (9 November 1966) is a German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.Huybrecht's homepage at the University of Bonn
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Education and career

Huybrechts studied mathematics from 1985 at the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative ...

, where in 1989 he earned his Diplom with Diplom thesis supervisor Herbert Kurke. In 1990–1992 Huybrechts studied at the

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (german: Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, MPIM) is a prestigious research institute located in Bonn, Germany. It is named in honor of the German physicist Max Planck and forms part of the Max Planck S ...

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, where he earned his PhD in 1992 under Herbert Kurke with thesis ''Stabile Vektorbündel auf algebraischen Flächen. Tjurins Methode zum Studium der Geometrie der Modulräume''. In the academic year 1994–1995 he was at the

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and in 1996 at IHES. In 1996 he was a research assistant at the

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, where in 1998 he earned his Habilitierung. In 1997–1998 he was at the

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. He was a professor in 1998–2002 at the University of Cologne and in 2002–2005 at the

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(Chargé de Cours) and, simultaneously, at the

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. Since 2005 he has been a professor at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

. Huybrechts does research on

K3 surface In mathematics, a complex analytic K3 surface is a compact connected complex manifold of dimension 2 with trivial canonical bundle and irregularity zero. An (algebraic) K3 surface over any field means a smooth proper geometrically connected al ...

s and their higher-dimensional analogues (compact hyperkähler manifolds) and moduli spaces of sheaves on varieties. In 2010 he was an

invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers. Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this community, of an induction to a hall of fame." ...

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and gave a talk ''Hyperkähler Manifolds and Sheaves''.

Selected publications

''Fourier-Mukai transforms in Algebraic Geometry''
Oxford Mathematical Monographs, 2006
''Complex geometry – an introduction''
Springer, Universitext, 2004 *with Stefan Schröer: * with

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, Mark Gross
''Calabi-Yau manifolds and related geometries''
Springer 2002. * with Manfred Lehn: ''The geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves'', Vieweg, Aspects of Mathematics, 1997 *
arxiv.org preprint

References

External links

"Lectures on K3 Surfaces" by Daniel Huybrechts
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