Soheyla Feyzbakhsh (Persian: سهیلا فیضبخش)[1] is a mathematician whose research connects algebraic geometry to string theory in mathematical physics.
Originally from Iran, she works in the UK as Royal Society university research fellow and senior lecturer in mathematics at Imperial College London.
[4] Feyzbakhsh studied mathematics and electrical engineering as an undergraduate at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran, earning a double baccalaureate in 2013.
[5] Feyzbakhsh was a 2023 recipient of the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society, "for her spectacular applications of wall-crossing techniques to questions in classical and enumerative algebraic geometry".
[8][6][3] She was a 2024 recipient of the Adams Prize of the University of Cambridge,[9][3] and of the Boris Dubrovin medal of the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, "for her impressive results in algebraic geometry, with relevant implications for mathematical physics, in particular string theory".