Professor Ruan Yongbin Joined IASM as the Second Permanent Member

Professor Ruan Yongbin joined Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics as a permanent member in January, 2020.


Yongbin's research focuses on Geometry and Physics. He was an invited speaker for ICM98, a Sloan Research Fellow and an AMS fellow. In 2021, he was elected member of Chinese Academy of Sciences.


Yongbin obtained his Ph.D from UC-Berkeley in 1991. Afterwards, he was a postdoc at Michigan State University (1991-1993), an assistant professor at University of Utah (1993-1996), a Van Vleck Chair Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison (1996-2005) and a Bill Fulton Collegiate Chair Professor at University of Michigan (1996-2020).