Jan Denef

Jan Denef (born 4 September 1951) is a Belgian mathematician.

[1] Denef obtained his PhD from KU Leuven in 1975 with a thesis on Hilbert's tenth problem; his advisors were Louis Philippe Bouckaert and Willem Kuijk.

He is well known for his early work on Hilbert's tenth problem and for developing the theory of motivic integration in a series of papers with François Loeser.

Recently he proved a conjecture of Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène which generalizes the Ax–Kochen theorem.

In 2002 Denef was an Invited Speaker at the International Congresses of Mathematicians in Beijing.