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Gerd Schmalz is a Professor of Mathematics. His research interest is in CR geometry, which is an interdisciplinary field that uses methods from Several complex variables, Differential geometry, Lie group theory and Differential equations. Applications of recent results include General relativity. Gerd has previously worked at Karl-Weierstrass-Institute, Bonn University, University of California at San Diego, Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics and since 2005, for UNE. He was the Leading Chief Investigator of an ARC grant on “Symmetries in Real and Complex Geometry”. His research network includes colleagues from Australia, Italy, South Korea, Czech Republic, Russia and New Zealand.  He has published 60 research papers and has been regularly invited to deliver talks at international conferences.

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  • Einstein manifolds with optical geometries of Kerr type

    Ganji, M., Giannotti, C., Schmalz, G. & Spiro, A., 31 Mar 2025, In: Annals of Physics. 474, p. 1-28 169908.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Quasi-Einstein Shearfree Spacetimes Lifted from Sasakian Manifolds

    Ganji, M., Schmalz, G. & Sykes, D., 31 Mar 2025, Complex Geometric Analysis In Honor of Kang-Tae Kim’s 65th Birthday, Pohang, Korea, 2022. Sugawa, T., Choi, Y.-J., Kim, S.-Y., Kim, K.-T., Seo, A., Byun, J., Park, J.-D., Sergeev, A. G. & Lee, K.-H. (eds.). Singapore, Vol. 481. p. 69-86 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics; no. 481).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • CR embeddings of nilpotent Lie groups

    Cowling, M. G., Ganji, M., Ottazzi, A. & Schmalz, G., 31 Aug 2024, In: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 152, p. 3413-3422 8.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
  • The Levi-Civita connections of Lorentzian manifolds with prescribed optical geometries

    Alekseevsky, D. V., Ganji, M., Schmalz, G. & Spiro, A., 31 Aug 2024, In: Cubo. 26, 2, p. 239-258

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    1 Citation (Scopus)
  • CR embeddings of CR manifolds

    Cowling, M. G., Ganji, M., Ottazzi, A. & Schmalz, G., 28 Feb 2023, In: Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. 202, 1, p. 287-291

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
  • Symmetries in Real and Complex Geometry

    Alekseevsky, D. (Partner Investigator), Cairns, G. (Chief Investigator), Ejov, V. (Chief Investigator), Nikolayevsky, Y. (Chief Investigator) & Schmalz, G. (Chief Investigator)

    1/01/1331/12/19

    Project: Grant