Leonid Polterovich#
| Membership Number: | 6701 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~polterov/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4516-4047 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1996 Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- 1994 - 1996 Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- 1991 - 1994 Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- 1990 - 1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- 1990 Doctoral Fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- 1987 - 1989 Junior Scientific Worker, Metrology Service State Research Institute, Moscow
- 1984 - 1987 Engineer, Krzhizhanovsky Energy State Research Institute, Moscow
- 1997 - 1998 Sabbatical, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
- 2009 - 2012 Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
Fields of Scholarship
- Symplectic and contact topology
- Dynamical systems
- Classical and quantum mechanics
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Plenary lecture, 7th European Congress of Mathematics, Berlin
- 2013 - 2019 European Research Council Advanced Grant ”Symplectic topology and its interactions: from dynamics to quantization”
- 2003 Michael Bruno Memorial Award, YAD HANADIV – the Rothschild Foundation
- 2003 The Gordon Chair in Dynamical Systems and Symplectic Topology, Tel Aviv University
- 1998 Invited address to the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin
- 1998 Erdös Prize (awarded by the Israel Mathematical Union)
- 1996 European Mathematical Society Prize
