Gavril Farkas#
Photo: MATH+/Kay Herschelman
| Membership Number: | 6453 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/farkas |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Professor (W3), Humboldt University Berlin
- 2006 - 2007 Associate Professor (tenured), University of Texas Austin
- 2004 - 2006 Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Texas Austin
- 2003 - 2004 Assistant Professor, Princeton University
- 2000 - 2003 Postdoc, University of Michigan
- 1996 - 2000 PhD in Mathematics, University of Amsterdam (advisor: Gerard van der Geer)
Fields of Scholarship
- Birational geometry
- Brill-Noether theory
- Algebraic geometry
- Syzygies of curves
- K3 surfaces
- Moduli of curves
- Abelian varieties
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Full Member
- 2019 ERC Advanced Grant SYZYGY
- 2014 Ad Astra Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research
- 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
