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 James McGill Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University.

Kamran was born in Brussels, and earned a licentiate in mathematics from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1980. He moved to Canada for graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Waterloo; his dissertation, titled Contributions to the Study of the Separation of Variables and Symmetry Operators for Relativistic Wave Equations on Curved Spacetime, was jointly supervised by Raymond G. McLenaghan and Robert Debever. In 1986 he became an assistant professor at Waterloo but then, after spending a year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he moved to McGill in 1989. He was promoted to full professor in 1995 and given the James McGill Professorship in 2003.

Kamran won the Aisenstadt Prize of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in 1992. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002 and he was a Killam fellow from 2006 to 2008. In 2012, Kamran became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. He was the 2014 winner of the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize.