Leonid Polterovich

Leonid Polterovich was born in 1963 in Moscow

Leonid Polterovich was born in Moscow on 30 August 1963. His father, Viktor Polterovich, was a mathematician. His brother, Iosif Polterovich, is a professor of mathematics at the University of Montreal.

He completed his undergraduate degree at Moscow State University in 1984. He then moved to Israel and earned his doctorate at Tel Aviv University in 1990, under the supervision of Vitali Milman.

He has been a professor at Tel Aviv University since 1996 and has also taught at the University of Chicago. His research covers symplectic geometry and dynamical systems. He received the EMS Prize in 1996, the Erdős Prize in 1998 and the Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2003.

In 1998 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. In 2016 he gave a plenary lecture at the 7th European Congress of Mathematics, also in Berlin. He was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2024.