Originally from the United States, Tyler Kelly graduated with two Bachelor’s degrees and a Master’s degree from the University of Georgia in 2009. Afterwards, Dr. Kelly moved to Philadelphia and obtained a PhD in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Ron Donagi. In addition, Dr. Kelly gained a graduate certificate in teaching in higher education while winning the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student.
At the end of the PhD, Dr. Kelly won a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellowship, which led to the University of Cambridge where Dr. Kelly spent four years, first as an NSF Fellow but then also as an EPSRC Research Fellow. While at Cambridge, Dr. Kelly was a research fellow at Homerton College.
Dr. Kelly joined Birmingham in September 2018 as a lecturer in mathematics as part of the new geometry and mathematical physics group. He has now won an EPSRC New Investigator Award (September 2019 - August 2021).