Luchezar Avramov

Luchezar L. Avramov is a Bulgarian-American mathematician who works in commutative algebra. He held the Dale M. Jensen Chair in Mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and is now an Emeritus.

Career

Avramov was educated at Moscow State University, earning a master's degree in 1970, a Ph.D. in 1975, and a D.Sc. in 1986. He worked for the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1970–1981 and 1989–1990, and Sofia University in 1981–1989, before moving to the United States in 1991 to become a professor at Purdue University. He moved again to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2002.

Awards and honors

In 2012, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in its inaugural class.