Professor Peter SARNAK was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and is currently the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, USA and Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa in 1975 and PhD in Mathematics from Stanford University, USA in 1980. He was an Assistant Professor (1980–1983) and Associate Professor (1983) at New York University, USA. He then joined Stanford University, where he was successively an Associate Professor (1984–1987) and Professor (1987–1991). From 1991, he moved to Princeton University and was appointed H Fine Professor (1995–1996) and the Chair of Mathematics Department (1996–1999). He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1999–2002 and 2005–2007) and served as a Professor there from 2007 until he became Emeritus in 2024.
He was also a Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (2001–2005) and has been appointed as Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University (2002–). He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
