Gavril Farkas
Gavril Marius Farkas (born 1973) is a Hungarian-Romanian-German mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. He is known for his work on algebraic curves, moduli spaces, and syzygies of algebraic varieties. Farkas is a professor of mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Education and career
[edit]Farkas was born in Oradea, Romania,[1] and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1995, specializing in geometry and topology. He obtained a Master of Science degree from the Mathematical Research Institute in the Netherlands in 1996 and completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2000[2] with thesis The Birational Geometry of the Moduli Space of Curves written under the direction of Gerard van der Geer.[3]
He has held academic positions at the University of Michigan, Princeton University, and the University of Texas at Austin[4] before becoming a full professor at Humboldt University in 2007.[5]
Honors
[edit]- 2023 Elected member of Academia Europaea[6]
- 2022 Elected full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities[7]
- 2019 ERC Advanced Grant SYZYGY[8][9]
- 2014 Ad Astra Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research[10]
- 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Prof. Dr. Gavril Farkas, CV". www.math.hu-berlin.de. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
- ^ "First MATH+ Distinguished Fellow: Gavril Farkas (HU Berlin)". MATH+. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
- ^ Gavril Farkas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b Leahy, Cory (18 May 2005). "University of Texas at Austin faculty receive Sloan Research Fellowships". UT Austin News - The University of Texas at Austin.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Gavril Farkas". www.mathematik.hu-berlin.de.
- ^ "Farkas Gavril". Academy of Europe.
- ^ "Neue Mitglieder der BBAW". BBAW.
- ^ "Zwei Millionen Euro für HU-Mathematiker Gavril Farkas - News - WISTA Management GmbH". WISTA (in German).
- ^ "Two Million Euros for HU Mathematician Gavril Farkas". Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
- ^ "Premiile Ad Astra: Despre dimensiunile matematicii cu Gavril Farkas". Adevărul (in Romanian). 28 October 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
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