Christopher M. Skinner
Chistopher Skinner is Princeton’s Henry Burchard Fine Professor of Mathematics. His research focuses on algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry and arithmetic aspects of the Langlands program.
Skinner has collaborated with many other notable mathematicians, including Andrew Wiles, Eric Urban, Manjul Bhargava and Wei Zhang. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 under Wiles’ mentorship and then joined the Institute for Advanced Study. After teaching for six years at the University of Michigan, he joined the Princeton faculty in 2006.
His past awards include a Packard Foundation Fellowship, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and an invitation to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid in 2006. In 2015, he was selected as a Simons Investigator in Mathematics by the New York-based Simons Foundation. He was named an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.