Florian Pop, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Florian Pop

Romanian mathematician

Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1952

Place of Birth: Zalău, Sălaj County, Romania

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Florian Pop (born 1952 in Zalau, Romania) is a Romanian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. Pop received his Ph.D.
in 1987 and his habilitation in 1991, both from the University of Heidelberg.
He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and (from 1996 to 2003) a professor at the University of Bonn prior to joining the U.
Penn faculty.Pop's research concerns algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry, anabelian geometry, and Galois theory.
Kuhlmann, Kuhlmann & Marshall (2003) call his habilitation thesis, concerning the characterization of certain fields by their absolute Galois groups, a "milestone".In 1996, Pop was awarded the Gay-Lussac–von Humboldt Prize for Mathematics, and in 2003 he was awarded the Romanian Order of Merit.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.