Bjorn Poonen

Bjorn Poonen
Bjorn Poonen
	Poonen at Oberwolfach in 2011
Born	July 27, 1968; Boston, Massachusetts
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University
Awards	Chauvenet Prize (2011); Fellow, American Mathematical Society (2012); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012); Doob Prize (2023);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	MIT
Thesis	The Mordell-Weil theorem, rigidity, and pairings for Drinfeld modules (1994)
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth Alan Ribet
Doctoral students	Kirsten Eisenträger; William A. Stein; Bianca Viray;
Website	math.mit.edu/~poonen/

Bjorn Mikhail Poonen (born July 27, 1968, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner, and a Distinguished Professor in Science in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is primarily in arithmetic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as probability and computer science. He has edited two books.

He is the founding managing editor of the journal Algebra & Number Theory, and serves also on the editorial boards of Involve: A Journal of Mathematics and the A K Peters Research Notes in Mathematics book series.

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