Marc Burger
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Marc Burger studied mathematics at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland); having completed his diploma (1983) he earned a doctorate (1986) with the thesis "Petites valeurs propres du laplacien et topologie de Fell". His Habilitation (1990) at Basle University (Switzerland) was followed by a three-year stay in the USA as an Invited Assistant Professor at Stanford University (CA, 1989-1990), then as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (NJ, 1990-1991) and finally as an Invited Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (NY, 1991-1992). In 1992 he followed a call as Professeur Ordinaire to the University of Lausanne; from there he was appointed as a full professor to the Mathematics Department at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1997. In 1999 he was appointed as director of the Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik (FIM) at the ETH; he held this position until 2009. He has been a research council member of the Swiss National Science Foundation since 2005.
Research Interest
Study of discrete subgroups of Lie groups
