Douglas Ulmer is an American mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and number theory.
[3] In 1987, he received his PhD at Brown University, where his advisor was Benedict Hyman Gross; his thesis was titled The Arithmetic of Universal Elliptic Modular Curves.
[4] Ulmer was a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.
[5] In 1997 he was among the founders of the Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry at the University of Arizona.
[6] In 2009, he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he became Chair of the School of Mathematics.