Daniel Biss
| Daniel Biss | |
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Biss in 2012
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| Member of the Illinois Senate from the 9th district |
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Assumed office January 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Jeffrey Schoenberg |
| Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 17th District | |
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In office May 2011 – January 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Elizabeth Coulson |
| Succeeded by | Laura Fine |
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| Born | August 27, 1977 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Karin Steinbrueck |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Evanston, Illinois |
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Harvard University MIT |
| Profession | Mathematician |
| Religion | Judaism |
Daniel Kálmán Biss (born 1977 in Akron, Ohio) is an American mathematician and member of the Illinois Senate from the 9th district, serving since January 2013. He is a candidate for Governor of Illinois in the 2018 election. The district includes Chicago's northern suburbs, including Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Northbrook, Northfield, Skokie, Wilmette, and Winnetka. Biss previously served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013.
Biss was born into a family of musicians: his brother is the noted pianist Jonathan Biss, his parents are the violinists Paul Biss and Miriam Fried, and his grandmother was the Russian-born cellist Raya Garbousova.
Biss attended Bloomington High School North in Bloomington, Indiana, graduating in 1995. In 1994, he attended the prestigious Research Science Institute at MIT. Biss subsequently earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1998, and his Ph.D. at MIT in 2002, both in mathematics. He won the 1999 Morgan Prize for his outstanding research as an undergraduate, and was a Clay Research Fellow from 2002 to 2007. His doctoral advisor was Michael J. Hopkins. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 2003.
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