Mihalis Dafermos

Mihalis Constantine Dafermos (* October 1976) is a Greek mathematician who deals with partial differential equations of General Relativity (GR ).

Dafermos studied mathematics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1997 and was founded in 2001 at Princeton University with Demetrios Christodoulou doctorate ( Stability and Instability of the Cauchy horizon for the spherically symmetric Einstein - Maxwell - Scalar Field Equations ) 2001-2004 he was Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2004 he is Lecturer, Reader since 2006 and since 2011 Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University. Since 2013 he is also professor of mathematics at Princeton.

He is known for his work on exact mathematical treatment of ART, for example, the stability problem of space-times in the vicinity of black holes, where he worked among others with Igor Rodnianski and Alan Rendall.

In 2004 he was awarded the Adams Prize, 2008 and 2009, the price Bodossaki Whitehead Prize. In 2008 he received an ERC Starting Grant and the 2009 Early Career Award from the International Association of Mathematical Physics.