Mihnea Popa


Mihnea Popa is a Romanian-American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.
Popa received his bachelor's degree in 1996 from the University of Bucharest. He studied mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1996 to 1997 and then in 2001, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan under
the supervision of Robert Lazarsfeld. His thesis was titled Linear Series on Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles on Curves. From 2001 to 2005, Popa was a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University and from 2005 to 2007 an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. He joined the University of Illinois at Chicago as an associate professor in 2007 and became a full professor in 2011. In 2014 he became a professor at Northwestern University.
Since 1996 Popa is a member of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. He was an AMS Centennial Fellow in 2005–2007, a Sloan Research Fellow in 2007–2009, and a Simons Fellow in 2015–2016. In 2015 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2018 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.

Selected publications