Alex V. Kontorovich is an American mathematician who works in the areas of analytic number theory, automorphic forms and representation theory, L-functions, harmonic analysis, and homogeneous dynamics.
Kontorovich earned a Bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 2002, and a PhD from Columbia University in 2007 where he studied under Dorian Goldfeld and Peter Sarnak.
[2] Kontorovich has held visiting positions at Harvard, ETH Zurich, and the Institute for Advanced Study.
He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Experimental Mathematics, and currently serves as Managing Editor for the Journal of the Association for Mathematical Research.
[6] In 2014 Kontorovich received the Levi L. Conant Prize for the paper "From Apollonius to Zaremba: Local-global phenomena in thin orbits".