Nicolai Reshetikhin

Mathematical physicist Nicolai Reshetikhin is a professor of mathematics at Tsinghua University, China. He is also a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His research is in the fields of low-dimensional topology, representation theory, and quantum groups. His major contributions are in the theory of quantum integrable systems, in representation theory of quantum groups and in quantum topology. He and Vladimir Turaev constructed invariants of 3-manifolds which are expected to describe quantum Chern–Simons field theory introduced by Edward Witten.

He earned his bachelor's degree and master's degree from Leningrad State University and his Ph.D. from the Steklov Mathematical Institute.