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Shahar Mozes

Shahar Mozes is an Israeli mathematician and a full professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for his work on Lie groups and ergodic theory.

born 2000Research on Lie groupsWork in ergodic theoryThe 2000 Erdős Prize

Occupation: mathematician, university teacher
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Shahar Mozes was born in 2000

Shahar Mozes belongs to the Mozes family. His father is Oded Mozes, who inherited the family printing house Grafolit from his own father, Alexander Mozes. His sister is Professor Tal Alon-Mozes of the Faculty of Architecture at the Technion.

He studied mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning his first degree through the Academic Reserve program. He completed his doctorate there in 1991 under Hillel Furstenberg, with a thesis on actions of Cartan subgroups.

He joined the mathematics department of the Hebrew University. He became a senior lecturer in 1993, an associate professor in 1996 and a full professor in 2002. His research covers Lie groups and their discrete subgroups, geometric group theory, ergodic theory and aperiodic tilings.

He won the Erdős Prize in 2000. He spoke at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998 and gave a plenary talk at an ICM satellite conference in 2010. He has written about 60 academic papers.

Milestones in Shahar Mozes's life

1991
Received his doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1993
Became a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University.
1996
Became an associate professor.
1998
Was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.
2000
Received the Erdős Prize.
2002
Was promoted to full professor.
2010
Gave a plenary talk at an ICM satellite conference.