Facts: - fields: mathematics - workplaces: university of oxford - doctoral advisor: michael atiyah - awards: whitehead 2013 -rrb- prize -lrb- 1989 -rrb- senior whitehead prize -lrb- - birth date: 1959 - name: dame frances kirwan dbe - nationality: british - image: frances kirwan.jpg - alma mater: university of cambridge Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of frances kirwan .
dame frances clare kirwan , dbe frs -lrb- born 1959 -rrb- is a british mathematician , currently a professor of mathematics at the university of oxford .her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry .