Lars Hesselholt

Lars Hesselholt (born September 25, 1966) is a Danish mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Nagoya University in Japan, as well as holding a temporary position as Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Copenhagen.

Moore instructor, and stayed at MIT as an assistant and then associate professor, before moving to Nagoya in 2008.

[1] Hesselholt's wife is Japanese, and when he joined the Nagoya faculty he became the first westerner with a full professorship in mathematics in Japan.

[5] Hesselholt became a Sloan fellow in 1998,[6] and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002.

[7] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society,[8] and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.