Douglas Ulmer

Douglas Ulmer is an American mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and number theory.^[1] He is a professor and mathematics department head at the University of Arizona.^[2]

Education

Ulmer did his undergraduate study at Princeton University.^[3] In 1987, he received his PhD at Brown University, where his advisor was Benedict Hyman Gross; his thesis was titled The Arithmetic of Universal Elliptic Modular Curves.^[4]

Academic career

Ulmer was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.^[5] In 1997 he was among the founders of the Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry at the University of Arizona.^[6] In 2009, he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he became Chair of the School of Mathematics.^[7] He returned to the University of Arizona in 2017.^[2]

Since 2014, he has served on the editorial board of the Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux.^[8][3]

Recognition

Ulmer was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.^[9]