Jun O'Hara

Jun O'Hara, legally named Jun Imai, is a Japanese mathematician who works on the fields of low-dimensional topology and knot theory. He is a professor at Chiba University.
He is famous for his discovery of Möbius energy, a type of knot energy.
He was born on 29 March 1963 in Hiroshima, Japan.
He was a PhD student of Takashi Tsuboi at the University of Tokyo.

Selected publications

Energy of knots and conformal geometry. World Scientific, Singapore, .
"Energy of a knot", Topology v. 30 n. 2, pp. 241–247