Florian Pop
Samuel D. Schack Professor of Algebra
Florian Pop is the recipient of numerous academic honors including several National Science Foundation research grants and a research grant from the John Templeton Foundation. He was named the Marie Curie Scholar of the European Union in 2007 and was awarded the Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2014. Pop is a member of the inaugural class of American Mathematical Society Fellows and is a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2001). He is also a member of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, and the European Union of Mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg.
Pop has published over two dozen articles in journals such as Annals of Mathematics and Inventiones Mathematicae. He is a member of the editorial board of Mathematische Nachrichten, Mathematical Reports, Research in Number Theory, and was an editor of Journal de Theorie des Nombres de Bordeaux (2000-2006).
About the Donor
Samuel D. Schack, C’74, GR’80
Samuel D. Schack, C'74, GR'80 established this chair through his estate in 2010.