Richard Pink
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Richard Pink has been Full Professor (since October 1999). He was born on July 29, 1959 in Karlsruhe/Germany. In 1979 he began to study mathematics in Karlsruhe and obtained his first degree (Diplom) in 1985 in Bonn. After a year as a visiting student in Princeton he became assistant in Bonn, where he finished his Ph. D. in 1989. Soon afterwards in 1991 he achieved the habilitation, and during the following three years he held a Heisenberg research fellowship. After several extended visits to Utrecht, Harvard, Kyoto, and Tokyo he became full professor in Mannheim in 1994, where he remained until 1999.
Research Interest
Algebra; Number theory
