Niky Kamran FRSC (born May 22, 1959) is a Belgian and Canadian mathematician whose research concerns geometric analysis, differential geometry, and mathematical physics.
[2] He moved to Canada for graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Waterloo; his dissertation, titled Contributions to the Study of the Separation of Variables and Symmetry Operators for Relativistic Wave Equations on Curved Spacetime, was jointly supervised by Raymond G. McLenaghan and Robert Debever.
[3] In 1986 he became an assistant professor at Waterloo but then, after spending a year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, he moved to McGill in 1989.
[7] In 2014, Kamran was the winner of the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize,[1] and in 2019 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.
[8] That same academy had awarded him in 1988 the mathematics prize of its annual competition for a memoir on the equivalence problem of Élie Cartan and its applications.