Ruadhaí Dervan

Picture of me at a whiteboard

I am a mathematician at the University of Warwick, where I hold the position of Reader. I have previously spent parts of my career and education at the University of Glasgow (who still host my website), the University of Cambridge (where I was a fellow of Gonville & Caius College), École Polytechnique, Université libre de Bruxelles and Trinity College Dublin.

I research complex geometry, which is roughly the intersection of algebraic and differential geometry. I am interested in both the analytic and algebro-geometric sides of complex geometry, and at the moment most of my work lies somewhere between the two. Topics I'm currently interested in include Kähler geometry, K-stability, geometric invariant theory and moduli theory, amongst others.

My CV. My email address is ruadhai.dervan@warwic.ac.uk. My office is B1.28 Zeeman Building, University of Warwick.

I do not plan to take a PhD student beginning the academic year 2026/2027. If you wish to apply for the academic year 2027/2028, please contact me around November 2026. I would recommend Thomas' notes and Székelyhidi's book (see also similar notes) for excellent introductions to my area; Donaldson has written a compelling (but more technical) survey.

I am an editor of Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.

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Photos with Michael, John and Annamaria (Aarhus, June 2022) and Alexia and Rémi (Cambridge, August 2022).

I organised a six-month INI programme titled New equivariant methods in algebraic and differential geometry along with several others at the Isaac Newton Institute in 2024 (see here for a popular account of the ideas behind our programme, by Marianne Freberger). I've also organised conferences and workshops in Glasgow (GLEN, 2024), Cambridge (K-stability and moment maps, 2024), Chicago (Around complex geometry), Cambridge (Cambridge complex geometry afternoon, 2022), Cambridge (K-stability and Kähler geometry, 2021), Newcastle (Newcastle complex geometry workshop, 2018), Rome (Moduli of K-stable varieties, 2017) and Cambridge (Postgraduate conference in complex geometry, 2015). The Rome conference has an associated conference proceedings, also edited by Codogni and Viviani.

I taught the SMSTC course Riemann Surfaces in Winter 2023 (see notes by Shimpi). I also taught Part III Complex Manifolds in Cambridge in Lent Term 2020 and Lent Term 2019 (see notes by Kuang and Minter).

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