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Alejandro Adem
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Alejandro Adem FRSC is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia and President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.[1] Previously he was Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences for the period 2008–2015 and during 2015-2019 was the CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs.[2][3] In 2024 he was reappointed to a second five-year term as President of NSERC.[4]
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Born | |
Nationality | Mexico, United States, Canada |
Alma mater | B.S., National University of Mexico, 1982 Ph.D., Princeton University, 1986 |
Awards | Jeffery-Williams Prize Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Fellow of the American Mathematical Society Fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society Canada Research Chair |
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Fields | Algebraic Topology Group cohomology |
Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison University of British Columbia |
Doctoral advisor | William Browder |
Doctoral students | Bernardo Uribe |
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