[1] Gelander earned his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003, under the supervision of Shahar Mozes.
[3] After holding a Gibbs Assistant Professorship at Yale University, and faculty positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Gelander joined Northwestern where he is currently a professor of mathematics.
[4] He contributed to the theory of lattices, Fuchsian groups and local rigidity, and the work on Chern's conjecture and the Derivation Problem.
[5] Among his well-known results is the solution to the Goldman conjecture, i.e. that the action of
He gave the distinguished Nachdiplom Lectures at ETH Zurich in 2011, and was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, giving a talk under the title of Asymptotic Invariants of Locally Symmetric Spaces.