Alain-Sol Sznitman

Alain-Sol Sznitman (born 13 December 1955) is a French and Swiss mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich.

[1] Within the field of percolation theory, Sznitman introduced the study of random interlacements.

[2] Sznitman did his undergraduate studies at the École Normale Supérieure, and earned a Doctorat d'Etat in 1983 from Pierre and Marie Curie University, under the supervision of Jacques Neveu.

[1][3] He worked at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University beginning in 1983 and was promoted to full professor there in 1990.

[1] In 1991, Sznitman won the Rollo Davidson Prize, given annually to an early-career probabilist, and in 1999 he won the Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability.