Henry B. Laufer is Vice President of Research at Renaissance Technologies

Renaissance Technologies

Renaissance Technologies is a hedge fund management company of about 275 employees and more than $ billion in assets under management in three funds...

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Laufer received his PhD from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 in 1965, studying with Robert Gunning

Robert Gunning (mathematician)

Robert Clifford Gunning is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University specializing in complex analysis. He joined the faculty in 1956 and was dean of the faculty from 1989 to 1995. He was Salomon Bochner's dissertation student.-External links:*...

. He joined the mathematics department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook

State University of New York at Stony Brook

The State University of New York at Stony Brook, also known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island, about east of Manhattan....

 in 1971. His research focused on complex variables

Complex variables

In mathematics, the term complex variables may be taken to mean one of* Complex analysis* Several complex variables* Quaternion variable* Motor variable* Multicomplex numbers* Hypercomplex numbers* Tricomplex numbers...

 and algebraic topology

Algebraic topology

Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics which uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. The basic goal is to find algebraic invariants that classify topological spaces up to homeomorphism, though usually most classify up to homotopy equivalence.Although algebraic topology...

. He left Stony Brook in 1992 to join Renaissance Technologies.

He and Marsha Laufer enabled the foundation of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology

Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology

The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biologywas founded in 2008 by a gift from Drs. Henry Laufer and Marsha Laufer. The Laufer Center is part of Stony Brook University. The center's current director is Dr. Ken A. Dill. Associate director is Dr. Carlos Simmerling. ...

 at Stony Brook University with a donation in 2008.

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