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Bridgeland won the Adams Prize in 2007 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.

Bridgeland's work helped to establish the coherent derived category as a key invariant of algebraic varieties and stimulated world-wide enthusiasm for what had previously been a technical backwater. His results on Fourier-Mukai transforms solve many problems within algebraic geometry, and have been influential in homological and commutative algebra, the theory of moduli spaces, representation theory and combinatorics. Bridgeland's 2002 Annals paper introduced spaces of stability conditions on triangulated categories, replacing the traditional rational slope of moduli problems by a complex phase. This far-reaching innovation gives a rigorous mathematical language for describing D-branes and creates a new area of deep interaction between theoretical physics and algebraic geometry. It has been a central component of subsequent work on homological mirror symmetry.

Bridgeland was educated at Shelley High School in Huddersfield and Christ's College, Cambridge where he studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos graduating with first class Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in Mathematics in 1995. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where he also stayed for a postdoctoral research position.

Thomas Andrew Bridgeland FRS (born 1973) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sheffield. He is most well-known for defining Bridgeland stability conditions on triangulated categories.