Philipp Habegger | |
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Born | July 23, 1978 |
Nationality | Swiss |
Alma mater | University of Basel |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Basel University of Zurich ETH Zurich |
Thesis | Heights and Multiplicative Relations on Algebraic Varieties (2007) |
Doctoral advisor | David Masser |
Philipp Habegger (born 23 July 1978) is a Swiss[1] mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Basel who works in Diophantine geometry.
Habegger was born on 23 July 1978.[1] He received his Ph.D. under the supervision of David Masser at the University of Basel in 2007.[2]
From 2008 to 2010, Habegger was a ETH Fellow at ETH Zurich.[1] He moved to the University of Zurich for a lectureship position in 2010.[1] In 2013, he was a von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.[3] As of 2021, Habegger is a professor of mathematics at the University of Basel.[4]
Habegger's research focuses on height functions and their applications to unlikely intersections.[3]