Alexandru Zaharescu

Alexandru Zaharescu (born June 4, 1961) is a Romanian mathematician. He is a professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. He has two PhDs in mathematics, one from the University of Bucharest in 1991 under the direction of Nicolae Popescu, the other from Princeton University in 1995 under the direction of Peter Sarnak. Zaharescu has numerous publications in highly prestigious journals,[1] and more than 300 in total.[2] Almost all his work is in number theory.

Alexandru Zaharescu
Born(1961-06-04)4 June 1961
Codlea, Romania
NationalityRomanian
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Princeton University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Number theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
Doctoral advisorsNicolae Popescu
Peter Sarnak

Early life

Zaharescu was born on June 4, 1961 and grew up in Codlea, Romania. He graduated from high school in Codlea in 1980, and from the University of Bucharest in 1986. He joined the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy in 1989, and in 1991 he received a PhD from the University of Bucharest.

Career

Zaharescu received his second PhD from Princeton University in 1995. After that, he has held temporary positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University, the Institute for Advanced Study, before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois in 2000.

Awards and honours

Zaharescu was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2017, for contributions to analytic number theory.[3]

Notes
  1. "Alexandru Zaharescu CV and some Publications" (PDF).
  2. "Alexandru Zaharescu full list of publications" (PDF).
  3. "2017 Class of Fellows of the AMS" (PDF).
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