Jan 26, 1964England, United Kingdom60 years oldAquarius
About Paul S. Aspinwall
Paul Stephen Aspinwall (born 26.January 1964 in England) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician, who works on string theory (including dualities, mirror symmetry, D-branes, and Calabi-Yau manifolds) and also algebraic geometry. Aspinwall received his early education at Bydales School, Marske-by-the-Sea and Prior Pursglove College, Guisborough.
He then studied at the University of Oxford with a focus on theoretical elementary particle physics.
He received his bachelor's degree in 1985 and his Ph.D.
in 1991.
He is now a professor of mathematics and physics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk (String theory and duality) at the ICM in Berlin.