| Kai Behrend | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hamburg |
| Residence | Canada |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of British Columbia |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Ogus |
| Other academic advisors | Günter Harder |
| Notable awards | Coxeter–James Prize, 2001 Jeffery–Williams Prize, 2011 |
Kai Behrend is a German mathematician. He is a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His work is in algebraic geometry and he has made important contributions in the theory of algebraic stacks, Gromov-Witten invariants and Donaldson–Thomas theory. He is the recipient of the 2001 Coxeter–James Prize [1] and the 2011 Jeffery–Williams Prize.[2]