About Me

My full name is Saman Habibi Esfahani. 

I am an Research Assistant Professor at Duke University.

I did my Ph.D. in mathematics at Stony Brook University under the supervision of Professor Sir Simon Donaldson FRS, working on differential geometry and geometric analysis, more specifically, manifolds with special holonomy groups and mathematical gauge theory in low and also higher dimensions. I was quite lucky to have the best advisor in the world, who I am grateful to because of his kindness, support, and mathematical insights.  I also did my minor topic on Floer theories under the supervision of Professor Kenji Fukaya. I am also a member of the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy.

I was a (Berlekamp Endowed) mathematics postdoctoral fellow at MSRI, and a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Jason Lotay during the Fall semester of 2022.  Subsequently, I became a William W. Elliott Assistant Research Professor at Duke University, working under the supervision of Mark Haskins, Robert Bryant, and Mark Stern. I am also a co-organizer of Duke's Geometry and Topology seminar. 

I am interested in geometry, a branch of mathematics that deals with shapes. My research interests include

• differential geometry: hyperkähler and Calabi-Yau geometries,

• low dimensional topology: 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds,

• gauge theory: Donaldson-Floer-Witten and Donaldson-Thomas theories,

• symplectic topology: Floer-theoretic invariants.

A short bio of me, written by Jason Lotay, can be found in the Emissary (MSRI newsletter) here.

If you are interested to know more about my research, feel free to contact me!

Saman (dot) HabibiEsfahani (at) Duke (dot) edu