Rate My Professor Masoud Ganji

Dr. Masoud Ganji is a Lecturer in the School of Science and Technology at the University of New England, Australia, within the Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law, and contributes to the Pure Mathematics research group. He earned his BSc from Shahre-kord University in Iran and his MSc from the University of Ahvaz in Iran. Following his master's degree, Ganji gained four years of university-level teaching experience in mathematics. In March 2015, he was awarded competitive financial support as a postgraduate student by the Mathematical Analysis and Modelling Research Group at the University of New England. He completed his PhD in Mathematics there in February 2019 under the supervision of Professor Gerd Schmalz. His PhD thesis, titled "Shear-free Lorentzian geometry and CR geometry," focused on the embedding problem of formal CR manifolds into complex space in CR geometry. Currently, he teaches first- and second-year mathematics courses, including Linear Algebra (PMTH213/PMTH413) and Computational Mathematics (AMTH250).

Ganji's research specializations include CR and complex geometry, mathematical physics, and differential geometry. His primary research revolves around the embedding problem of abstract CR structures, investigating challenges in embedding formal CR manifolds into complex space, and the study of geometric structures of Einstein metrics in general relativity. Key publications are: "Quasi-Einstein shearfree spacetimes lifted from Sasakian manifolds" with G. Schmalz and D. Sykes (July 2023); "CR embeddings of CR manifolds" in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata (2022) with M.G. Cowling, A. Ottazzi, and G. Schmalz; "Lorentzian manifolds with shearfree congruences and Kahler-Sasaki geometry" in Differential Geometry and its Applications, 75, 101724 (2021) with D.V. Alekseevsky, G. Schmalz, and A. Spiro; "A criterion for local embeddability of three-dimensional CR structures" in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, 198(2), 491-503 (2019) with G. Schmalz; "CR-geometry and Shearfree Lorentzian Geometry" in Geometric Complex Analysis (2018) with D.V. Alekseevsky and G. Schmalz; "CR embeddings of nilpotent Lie groups" in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (April 2024) with M. Cowling, A. Ottazzi, and G. Schmalz; and "The Levi-Civita connections of Lorentzian manifolds with prescribed optical geometries" in CUBO, A Mathematical Journal (May 2024) with D.V. Alekseevsky, G. Schmalz, and A. Spiro. He is a member of the Australian Mathematical Society.