Yuriy Drozd
Born (1944-10-15) 15 October 1944
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR
NationalityUkrainian
Alma materTaras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
AwardsState Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
Scientific career
Fieldsmathematics, algebra, representation theory, algebraic geometry
InstitutionsInstitute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine
Doctoral advisorIgor Shafarevich
Doctoral studentsVolodymyr Mazorchuk

Yuriy Drozd (Ukrainian: Юрій Анатолійович Дрозд; born October 15, 1944) is a Ukrainian mathematician working primarily in algebra. He is a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and head of the Department of Algebra and Topology at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Biography

Drozd graduated from Kyiv University in 1966, pursuing a postgraduate degree at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1969. His PhD dissertation On Some Questions of the Theory of Integral Representations (1970) was supervised by Igor Shafarevich.[1]

From 1969 to 2006 Drozd worked at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Kyiv University (at first as lecturer, then as associate professor and full professor). From 1980 to 1998 he headed the Department of Algebra and Mathematical Logic. Since 2006 he has been the head of the Department of Algebra and Topology (until 2014 - the Department of Algebra) of the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.[2] His doctoral students include Volodymyr Mazorchuk.[1]

In 2022 and 2023, Drozd taught at the Mathematics Department of Harvard University.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Yurii Anatolijevych Drozd". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Drozd Yurii Anatolijevych". Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  3. ↑ ""Yuriy Drozd"". Harvard University Mathematics Department. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
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