Professor
Ian Agol
University of California, Berkeley
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2025
Ian Agol, a professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley, studies the geometry and topology of curved shapes and spaces, primarily hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
He was the Simons Chair of the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department from 2016 to 2021, won a Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2016, and was a Simons Investigator from 2015 to 2020
He received his BS at Caltech and his Ph.D in Mathematics at UC San Diego.
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