Christopher Hacon

Christopher Hacon
Hacon at Oberwolfach in 2008
Born
Christopher Derek Hacon

(1970-02-14) 14 February 1970 (age 54)
Manchester, England
NationalityBritish
Italian
American
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
SpouseAleksandra Jovanovic-Hacon
ChildrenStefan Jovanovic-Hacon, Ana Jovanovic-Hacon, Aleksandar (Sasha) Jovanovic-Hacon, Kristina Jovanovic-Hacon, Daniela Jovanovic-Hacon, Marko Jovanovic-Hacon
AwardsClay Research Award (2007)
Cole Prize (2009)
Feltrinelli Prize (2011)
Breakthrough Prize (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Utah
Thesis Seshadri Constants of Ample Vector Bundles Divisors on Principally Polarized Abelian Varieties  (1998)
Doctoral advisorRobert Lazarsfeld

Christopher Derek Hacon FRS (born 14 February 1970) is a mathematician with British, Italian and US nationalities.[1] He is currently distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Utah where he holds a Presidential Endowed Chair. His research interests include algebraic geometry.

Hacon was born in Manchester, but grew up in Italy where he studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore and received a degree in mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1992. He received his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998, under supervision of Robert Lazarsfeld.

  1. ^ As Hacon states in his Curriculum Vitae