Research Areas:
Number Theory, Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry

Prof. Zhang Shou-Wu received his PhD from Columbia University in 1991. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and an Assistant Professor at Princeton University from 1991 to 1996. He has been tenured at Columbia University since 1996 and at Princeton University since 2011.

Prof. Zhang’s research areas include number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry. He is on the editorial boards of the Algebra and Number Theory and Forum of Mathematics.

Prof. Zhang was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians at Berlin in 1998 and was awarded a Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics in the same year by the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians for his work on the Bogomolov conjecture and Gross-Zagier formula. He was a Sloan Research Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a L.-K. Hua Chair Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Changjiang Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, and a Prize Fellow at Clay Mathematical Institute. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2016, he was named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and Simons Fellow in Mathematics.