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Tamar Ziegler

Tamar Ziegler is an Israeli mathematician at the Hebrew University who works in ergodic theory, additive combinatorics and number theory.

born 1971Higher-order Fourier analysisLinear equations in prime numbersPolynomial patterns in primes

Occupation: mathematician
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tamar Ziegler was born in 1971

Tamar Ziegler was born in 1971 to Ilana and Zvi Ziegler. Her father is a professor of mathematics at the Technion.

From 1991 to 2003 she studied mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning bachelor's and master's degrees. She wrote her doctorate on nonconventional ergodic averages under Hillel Furstenberg.

She spent five years in the United States as a postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State University, the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Michigan. She taught at the Technion from 2007 to 2013. In 2013 she joined the Hebrew University as a full professor at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics.

With Ben Green and Terence Tao she developed higher-order Fourier analysis, which advanced the study of linear equations in primes. With Tao she extended the Green-Tao theorem to polynomial patterns. She has edited several journals and served as Editor in Chief of the Israel Journal of Mathematics.

Tamar Ziegler's life in 8 milestones

2007
Joined the Technion faculty.
2011
Won the Erdős Prize in Mathematics.
2013
Became a full professor at the Hebrew University.
2014
Spoke at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
2015
Received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award.
2021
Was elected to the Academia Europaea.
2024
Won the Rothschild Prize.
2026
Invited as a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians.