Saman Habibi Esfahani
Employment:
Harvard University, CMSA Research Associate (Aug 2025 - present), supervised by Cliff Taubes.
Duke University, William W. Elliott Assistant Research Professor (Aug 2022 - July 2025), supervised by Mark Haskins.
SLMath (formerly MSRI), Berlekamp Endowed Postdoctoral Fellow/ Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley (Fall Semester 2022), supervised by Jason Lotay.
Education:
Stony Brook University, PhD (Aug 2017- May 2022), PhD advisor: Sir Simon Donaldson.
Research Interests:
Differential geometry: Calabi-Yau manifolds and special Lagrangians
Gauge theory on 3- and 4-manifolds and also manifolds with special holonomy
Symplectic & hyperkähler geometry: Floer homology from Fueter sections
Miscellaneous:
I appeared in a short film about math Opening Doors to Mathematics at SLMath.
A short bio of me, written by Jason Lotay, can be found in the Emissary (MSRI newsletter) here (page 14).
A short description of my research appeared in the Harvard University CMSA newsletter here (page 15).
I was a member of the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy.
saman underline habibiesfahani at fas dot harvard dot edu