Alexander Furman
Alexander Furman is a mathematician who is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1983-1986 Alexander Furman received his bachelor’s in mathematics and computer science over at Hebrew University of Jerusalem He completed his master’s in mathematics from 1987-1989, also at Hebrew University. And earned his PhD in mathematics from Hebrew University from 1991-1996 Career. Furman started teaching mathematics in 1996 as an L. E. Dickson instructor of mathematics at the University of Chicago. A year later in 1997 he started a position as a Post-Doctoral fellow at Penn  State University.  He has worked at the University of Illinois at Chicago from since 1997, serving as an assistant professor until 2007 and being upgraded to full professor. Alexander Furman also runs the UIC Math Olympiad Project, where he works with high school-age students where he encourages them to discuss and work out mathematical problems. Honors and awards. Furman's work in the field of mathematics has earned him a total of fourteen awards. His first award was back in 1998 winning the National Science Foundation grant and eventually receiving it four more times in the future. Another grant  that was awarded to him three times in his career was the Binational Science Foundation. In 2014 he was given the Simons Foundation Fellow that is given to those who are involved in research in mathematics. He has also received the National Science Foundation Career Award, that is given to those who have done an exceptional work in teaching through research. In 2014 he was an invited speaker for the International Congress of Mathematics hosted in Seoul, South Korea. Also, for his work in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and Lie groups, he was placed in the class of 2016, American  Mathematical Society Fellow, in where fifty individuals are chosen from around the world who have been noticed for their contribution of mathematics. Some of his most recent awards are the University Scholar and the LAS Distinguished Professor.