Igor Frenkel

Igor Frenkel
Born (1952-04-22) April 22, 1952 (age 72)
NationalityRussian
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University
Yale University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsYale University
Doctoral advisorHoward Garland
Doctoral studentsPavel Etingof
Mikhail Khovanov
Alexander Kirillov, Jr.

Igor Borisovich Frenkel (Russian: Игорь Борисович Френкель; born April 22, 1952) is a Russian-American mathematician at Yale University working in representation theory and mathematical physics.

Frenkel emigrated to the United States in 1979. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1980 with a dissertation on the "Orbital Theory for Affine Lie Algebras". He held positions at the IAS and MSRI, and a tenured professorship at Rutgers University, before taking his current job of tenured professor at Yale University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.[1] He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]

  1. ^ "Six Yale professors elected to National Academy of Sciences". May 2018.
  2. ^ "Six Yale professors elected to National Academy of Sciences". May 2018.