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Paul Biran

Paul Biran is an Israeli mathematician who works in symplectic geometry and algebraic geometry and holds a chair at ETH Zurich.

born 1969Research in symplectic geometryWork on symplectic packingChair of mathematics at ETH Zurich

Born: 25 February 1969, Bucharest
Occupation: mathematician, university teacher
Education: Tel Aviv University

Paul Biran was born in 1969 in Bucharest

Paul Ian Biran was born on 25 February 1969 in Bucharest, Romania. His family moved to Israel in 1971.

He studied at Tel Aviv University and received a bachelor's degree in 1994. He completed his Ph.D. there in 1997 under Leonid Polterovich, with a thesis on the geometry of symplectic packing.

From 1997 to 1999 he was a Szego Assistant Professor at Stanford University. At Tel Aviv University he rose from lecturer in 1997 to senior lecturer in 2001, associate professor in 2005 and full professor in 2008. In 2009 he became a full professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich.

He received the Oberwolfach Prize in 2003, the EMS Prize in 2004 and the Erdős Prize in 2006. In 2013 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.