Thomas Geisser Explained

Thomas Geisser
Birth Date:28 February 1966
Birth Place:Wuppertal
Nationality:German
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:Rikkyo University
Alma Mater:University of Münster
Doctoral Advisor:Christopher Deninger
Thesis Title:A p-adic analog of Beilinson's conjectures for Hecke characters of imaginary quadratic fields
Thesis Year:1994
Awards:Sloan Fellowship 2000, Humboldt Prize 2021
Website:https://www2.rikkyo.ac.jp/web/geisser/

Thomas Hermann Geisser (born February 28, 1966, in Wuppertal) is a German mathematician working at Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan). He works in the field of arithmetic geometry, motivic cohomology and algebraic K-theory.

Education

From 1985 Geisser studied at Bonn University under the supervision of Günther Harder and obtained a master's degree in 1990. He continued to obtain a PhD under the supervision of Christopher Deninger at the University of Münster; the title of his thesis is A p-adic analog of Beilinson's conjecture for Hecke characters of imaginary quadratic fields.

Career

Geisser spent three years at Harvard University as a visiting scholar and visiting fellow, respectively. After further stays in Essen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Tokyo University, he became assistant professor at the University of Southern California, and was promoted to associate professor in 2002 and professor in 2006.

After visiting Tokyo University again he became a professor at Nagoya University in 2010, and moved to Rikkyo University in 2015[1]

He received a Sloan Research Fellowship (2000) and a Humboldt Prize (2021).[2]

He is editor for Documenta Mathematica[3] and managing editor for Commentarii Mathematici Universitatis St.Pauli.[4]

Selected publications

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 立教大学理学部数学科:研究室の紹介.
  2. Web site: Prof. Dr. Thomas Geißer. https://web.archive.org/web/20210624203335/https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview?tx_rsmavhsolr_solrview%5BpPersonId%5D=1058906&cHash=f7c3d8df94082f66cc50542a436dfc45. 2021-06-24. dead. Humboldt Foundation. Singleview profiles.
  3. Web site: ELibM – Documenta Mathematica.
  4. Web site: 立教大学学術リポジトリ - 立教大学学術リポジトリ .