Dennis Sullivan

Dennis Parnell Sullivan is an American mathematician, born in Port Huron, Michigan, in 1941, known for his work in algebraic topology, geometric topology and dynamical systems. He entered Rice University to study chemical engineering but switched to mathematics in his second year, and he earned his doctorate at Princeton University in 1966. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study and a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1969 to 1973. He holds the Albert Einstein Chair at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University. He received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2010 and the Abel Prize in 2022.