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Shiri Artstein

Shiri Artstein-Avidan is an Israeli mathematician and professor at Tel Aviv University who works in convex geometry and asymptotic geometric analysis.

born 1978Research in convex geometryMonotonicity of entropy solutionThe 2015 Erdős Prize

Born: 28 September 1978, Jerusalem
Occupation: mathematician, university teacher
Education: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv University

Shiri Artstein was born in 1978 in Jerusalem

Shiri Artstein was born in Jerusalem on 28 September 1978. Her father, Zvi Artstein, is a mathematician who served as dean of mathematics and computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her mother, Yael Artstein, is an economist who was deputy director of research at the Bank of Israel.

She attended the Amos de-Shalit high school in Rehovot. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at Tel Aviv University in 2000, summa cum laude. She completed her PhD there in 2004 under Vitali Milman, with a dissertation on entropy methods.

From 2004 to 2006 she was a Veblen Research Instructor at Princeton University and a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 2006 she joined the faculty of Tel Aviv University as a senior lecturer. Her work covers geometric functional analysis, high-dimensional convexity and duality.

She won the Nessyahu Prize in 2006, the Krill Prize in 2008 and the Erdős Prize in 2015. She is married to physicist Assaf Avidan, and the couple has 3 children.