| Alexei Skorobogatov | |
|---|---|
| Born | 04/11/1961 Moscow |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Imperial College London |
| Alma mater | MSU |
| Doctoral advisor | Yuri Manin |
| Doctoral students | Steven Cunnane Richard Thursby |
| Known for | algebraic geometry, number theory |
Alexei Nikolaievich Skorobogatov is a mathematician and currently a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London. He specialises in algebraic geometry.
He completed his dissertation under the supervision of Yuri Manin, for which he was awarded a Ph.D. degree.[1]
He has published papers on rational points, the Hasse principle and the Manin obstruction, exponential sums, combinatorics and error-correcting codes. In 2001 he was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society.[2]