Mihalis Dafermos (

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: Μιχάλης Δαφέρμος; born October 1976) is a

mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics at

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and holds the Lowndean Chair of Astronomy and Geometry at the

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. He studied mathematics at

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and was awarded a BA in 1997. His PhD thesis titled ''Stability and Instability of the Cauchy Horizon for the Spherically Symmetric Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Field Equations'' was written under the supervision of

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. He has won the

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writing on the subject '' Differential Equations'' in 2004 and the

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in 2009 for "his work on the rigorous analysis of hyperbolic partial differential equations in general relativity." In 2015 he was elected as a

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of the

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Homepage at Cambridge
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