Alejandro Adem
Alejandro Adem is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia
and President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Previously he was Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences for the period 2008–2015 and during 2015-2019 was the CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs. In 2024 he was reappointed to a second five-year term as President of NSERC.
Education and academic career
Alejandro Adem did his undergraduate studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, earning a B.S. in 1982. He earned his Ph.D. in 1986 from Princeton University, under the supervision of William Browder. He then worked as Szego Assistant Professor at Stanford University before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; he moved to the University of British Columbia in 2005.Adem has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the ETH-Zürich, the Max-Planck Institute in Bonn, the University of Paris 7 and at Princeton University. His main areas of research are algebraic topology and group cohomology. Adem has written or co-written over sixty research papers and two research monographs.
From 2013 to 2020 Adem was managing editor of the Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society and the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Since 2024 he is Chief Editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. He has served on the scientific and governance boards of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the Banff International Research Station and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.