Chris J. L. Doran is a physicist, Director of Studies in Natural Sciences for Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Doran obtained his Ph.D. in 1994 on the topic of Geometric Algebra and its Application to Mathematical Physics.
These had been rediscovered and refined by David Hestenes, who built on the fundamental work of William Kingdon Clifford and Hermann Grassmann.
[5] He took a break from academics in 2005, and he subsequently founded the software company Geomerics, making use of his knowledge of mathematics.
His research interests relate to applied mathematics and theoretical physics, in particular quantum theory, gravitation, geometric algebra and computational geometry.