Douglas Ulmer is an American mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and number theory.[1] He is a professor and mathematics department head at the University of Arizona.[2]
Ulmer did his undergraduate study at Princeton University. In 1987, he received his PhD at Brown University, where his advisor was Benedict Hyman Gross; his thesis was titled The Arithmetic of Universal Elliptic Modular Curves.
Ulmer was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.[3] In 1997 he was among the founders of the Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry at the University of Arizona.[4] In 2009, he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he became Chair of the School of Mathematics.[5] He returned to the University of Arizona in 2017.[2]
Since 2014, he has served on the editorial board of the Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux.[6] [7]