Career
His research concerns probability theory and mathematical physics. Sznitman did his undergraduate studies at the École Normale Supérieure, and earned a Doctorat d"Etat in 1983 from Pierre and Marie Curie University, under the supervision of Jacques Neveu. He worked at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University beginning in 1983 and was promoted to full professor there in 1990.
He moved to Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich in 1991, and from 1995 to 1999 was director of the Institute for Mathematical Research at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich.
He became a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997, and of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998.