Career
Currently Merkurjev is a professor at the University of California, Los Los Angeles
mathematician university professor
Currently Merkurjev is a professor at the University of California, Los Los Angeles
In 1982 Merkurjev won the Young Mathematician Prize of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society for his work on algebraic K-theory. In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley, California, and his talk was entitled "Milnor K-theory and Galois cohomology". In 1995 he won the Humboldt Prize, an international prize awarded to renowned scholars. Merkurjev gave a plenary talk at the 2nd European Congress of Mathematics in Budapest, Hungary in 1996. In 2012 he won the Cole Prize in Algebra for his work on the essential dimension of groups. In 2015 a special volume of Documenta Mathematica was published in honor of Merkurjev"s sixtieth birthday.
American Mathematical Society.
