Gavril Farkas

Gavril Marius Farkas (born 1973) is a Hungarian-Romanian-German mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. He is known for his work on algebraic curves, moduli spaces, and syzygies of algebraic varieties. Farkas is a professor of mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Education and career

Farkas was born in Oradea, Romania,^[1] and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1995, specializing in geometry and topology. He obtained a Master of Science degree from the Mathematical Research Institute in the Netherlands in 1996 and completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2000^[2] with thesis The Birational Geometry of the Moduli Space of Curves written under the direction of Gerard van der Geer [de].^[3]

He has held academic positions at the University of Michigan, Princeton University, and the University of Texas at Austin^[4] before becoming a full professor at Humboldt University in 2007.^[5]

Honors

• 2023 Elected member of Academia Europaea^[6]
• 2022 Elected full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities^[7]
• 2019 ERC Advanced Grant SYZYGY^[8][9]
• 2014 Ad Astra Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research^[10]
• 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship^[4]