Thomas Zink is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 mathematician

Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

. He currently holds a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry

Algebraic geometry

Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which combines techniques of abstract algebra, especially commutative algebra, with the language and the problems of geometry. It occupies a central place in modern mathematics and has multiple conceptual connections with such diverse fields as complex...

 at the University of Bielefeld.
He has been doing research at the Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study

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 in Princeton

Princeton, New Jersey

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, at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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 and at the University of Bonn

University of Bonn

The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

 among others.

In 1992, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro, to be used within seven years...

 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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 joint with Christopher Deninger

Christopher Deninger

Christopher Deninger is a German mathematician at the University of Münster. He made notable contributions to number theory and algebraic geometry....

 (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität of Münster), Michael Rapoport

Michael Rapoport

Michael Rapoport is a German mathematician. He currently holds a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the University of Bonn...

 (University of Wuppertal

University of Wuppertal

The University of Wuppertal is a German scientific institution, located in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia.The university, the full German name of which is Bergische Universität Wuppertal , was formed in 1972 and is located in the city of Wuppertal, within the state of North Rhine-Westphalia,...

) and Peter Schneider (University of Cologne

University of Cologne

The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...

). The four researchers succeeded to apply modern methods of algebraic geometry to the solution of diophantine equation

Diophantine equation

In mathematics, a Diophantine equation is an indeterminate polynomial equation that allows the variables to be integers only. Diophantine problems have fewer equations than unknown variables and involve finding integers that work correctly for all equations...

s.
Furhtermore, he is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Halle an der Saale).

External links

• Homepage of Thomas Zink
• List of all Leibniz price laureates (DFG) (PDF; 7,52 MB)