Alex Kontorovich

Alex Kontorovich is a Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University. He received his BA from Princeton, followed by a PhD from Columbia. Before Rutgers, Kontorovich taught at Brown, Stony Brook, and Yale. In 2013, he received the American Mathematical Society's Levi Conant Prize for mathematical exposition. His research in number theory, geometry, and dynamics was recognized by an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a Simons Foundation Fellowship, and a von Neumann Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2017, Kontorovich became a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and was elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Quanta Magazine, as Dean of Academic Content at the National Museum of Mathematics, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Experimental Mathematics.