Alain-Sol Sznitman#
| Membership Number: | 2583 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.ethz.ch/u/sznitman |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1995-1999 Director of the Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik (FIM), ETH Zurich
- 1991 Professor, ETH Zurich, emeritus since 2021
- 1990 Professor, Courant Institute, New York University
- 1987-1990 Associate Professor, Courant Institute, New York University
- 1985-1987 Chargé de recherche, CNRS and Université Paris 6
- 1983-1985 Visiting member, Courant Institute, New York University, and chargée de recherche, CNRS
- 1979-1983 Attaché de recherche, CNRS and Université Paris 6
Fields of Scholarship
- Mathematics
- Probability theory, with a special focus on random media and problems connected with physics
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Sloan Research Fellowship
- 1991 Rollo Davidson Prize
- 1992 Plenary lecture at the First European Congress of Mathematics, Paris
- 1997 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 1998 Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin
- 1999 Line and Michel Loeve International Prize in Probability
- 2008 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2012 Member of the Inaugural Class of AMS Fellows
- 2014 Member IMU Circle
- 2022 Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics, EURASC
- 2022 Member of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)
- 2023 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
