Paul Stephen Aspinwall (born 26 January 1964 in England) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician, who works on string theory (including dualities, mirror symmetry, D-branes, and Calabi–Yau manifolds) and also algebraic geometry.
Aspinwall received his early education at Bydales School, Marske-by-the-Sea and Prior Pursglove College, Guisborough.
He then studied at the University of Oxford with a focus on theoretical elementary particle physics.
[1] He is now a professor of mathematics and physics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk (String theory and duality) at the ICM in Berlin.