Education
Winchester College; Trinity College.
Winchester College; Trinity College.
He is, since 2013, professor of mathematics at King"s College London, having moved there from his previous position at Cambridge University. Having been a Fellow for more than 20 years, Shepherd-Barron retains a life Fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a scholar of Winchester College.
He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick in 1981 under the supervision of Miles Reid.
He worked initially in the area of birational geometry and Mori theory. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.
He works on the classification of higher-dimensional varieties. He is the son of John Shepherd-Barron, a Scottish inventor.
Royal Society.