Jan Denef, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jan Denef

Belgian mathematician

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1951

Place of Birth: Mechelen, Flemish Region, Belgium

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Jan Denef (born 4 September 1951) is a Belgian mathematician.
He is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven).Denef obtained his Ph.D.
from KU Leuven in 1975 with a thesis on Hilbert's tenth problem; his advisors were Louis Philippe Bouckaert and Willem Kuijk.He is a specialist of model theory, number theory and algebraic geometry.
He is well known for his early work on Hilbert's tenth problem and for developing the theory of motivic integration in a series of papers with François Loeser.
He has also worked on computational number theory. Recently he proved a conjecture of Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène which generalizes the Ax–Kochen theorem. In 2002 Denef was an Invited Speaker at the International Congresses of Mathematicians in Beijing.
His Hirsch-index is 24.