Dima Grigoriev (born 10 May 1954) is a mathematician

Mathematician

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, a citizen of Russia

Russia

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, permanent resident of France

France

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. His research interests include algebraic geometry

Algebraic geometry

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, symbolic computation

Symbolic computation

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 and computational complexity theory

Computational complexity theory

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 in computer algebra, with over 120 published articles.

Dima Grigoriev was born in Leningrad

Leningrad

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, Russia and graduated from the Leningrad State University, Dept. of Mathematics and Mechanics, in 1976 (Honours Diploma). During 1976-1992 he was with LOMI

Lomi

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, Leningrad Department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1979 he earned Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in Physics and Mathematics with thesis "Multiplicative Complexity of a Family of Bilinear Forms" (from LOMI, under the direction of Anatol Slissenko). In 1985 he earned Doctor of Science

Doctor of Science

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 (higher doctorate) with thesis "Computational Complexity in Polynomial Algebra". Since 1988 till 1992
he was the head of Laboratory of algorithmic methods Leningrad Department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute.
During 1992-1998 Grigoriev hold the position of full professor at Penn State University

Pennsylvania State University

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.

Since 1998 he hold the position of Research Director at CNRS, University of Rennes 1

University of Rennes 1

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, and since 2008 — Research Director at CNRS, Laboratory Paul Painleve University Lille 1 in France.

He is member of editorial boards of the Journal Computational Complexity, Journal of Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communications and Computations and Groups, Complexity, Cryptology.

He is recipient of the Prize of Leningrad Mathematical Society (1984), Max Planck Research Award

Max Planck medal

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 of the Max Planck Society

Max Planck Society

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, Germany (1994), and Humboldt Prize

Humboldt Prize

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 of Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2002), Invited Speaker of International Congress of Mathematicians

International Congress of Mathematicians

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, Berkeley, California, 1986.