Nikon Kurnosov

Dr Kurnosov is a Khodorkovsky Research Fellow at LIMS. His work focuses on complex geometry, hyperkähler geometry and Calabi-Yau manifolds.

Dr Nikon Kurnosov is a Khodorkovsky Research Fellow at the London Institute. He has degrees in mathematics, chemistry and materials science, and has done two PhDs: one in chemistry at Lomonosov Moscow State University, and one in mathematics at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Since then, Dr Kurnosov has done a postdoc at the University of Georgia, held the Clifford Research Fellowship at UCL, and been a lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland and the University of Leicester. He has been a recipient, twice, of a Dobrushin Fellowship, and more recently of a Simons Travel Grant. Outside research, he enjoys foraging, football, electronic music and groundhopping.

Dr Kurnosov’s research focuses on complex geometry, hyperkähler geometry, Calabi-Yau manifolds, algebraic geometry and automorphisms.

 Nikon Kurnosov

nk@lims.ac.uk