Nikita Nekrasov | |
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Born |
Soviet Union |
April 10, 1973
Residence | France, United States |
Nationality | Russian, French |
Fields | Physics, Mathematics |
Institutions |
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics Institute for Information Transmission Problems Harvard University Princeton University Stony Brook University Simons Center for Geometry and Physics |
Alma mater |
Moscow State School 57 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics Princeton University |
Nikita Nekrasov (Russian: Ники́та Алекса́ндрович Некра́сов; born 10 April 1973) is a mathematical physicist and string theorist at Stony Brook University in New York.Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Nekrasov studied at the Moscow State 57th School in 1986–1989. He graduated with honors from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1995, and joined the theory division of the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics. In parallel, in 1994–1996 Nekrasov did his graduate work at Princeton University, under the supervision of David Gross. His PhD thesis on Four Dimensional Holomorphic Theories was defended in 1996. He was then selected to become a Junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows at Harvard University from 1996–1999, then a Robert. H. Dicke Fellow, Princeton University from 1999 to 2000. In 2000 he became a permanent professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. During 2010 he was a visitor at the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University. In 2013, he moved to the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University as a full professor.