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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Sofja Kovalevskaya Award (Humboldt Foundation, 2001); Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2001); Plenary Speaker at 5th European Congress of Mathematics, Amsterdam 2008; Invited Speaker in the Mathematical Physics Section at International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad 2010. Editorial work includes 'Mathematics in Computer Science', 'Journal of Mathematical Physics', etc.
Research Experience
- 1997-2000: C.L.E. Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2000-2008: Associate Professor at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn; Since 2001: Courtesy Appointment in the Mathematics Department at Florida State University; 2006-2010: Honorary Professorship at Bonn University; 2013-2018: Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; 2018-2020: Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada.
Education
- Ph.D. 1997 from the University of Chicago, advisor Melvin Rothenberg.
Background
- A drifter of Dadaist persuasion (computational linguist, sometime physicist and occasional mathematician); Robert F. Christy Professor of Mathematics and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech.
Miscellany
- Seems to have a keen interest in interdisciplinary areas such as Generative Linguistics.