Brendan Hassett, Ph.D.
Jonathan Nelson University Professor of MathematicsDirector of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Brown University
Brendan Hassett joined the Brown University faculty in 2015 and became director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics in 2016. His research is in algebraic geometry, the study of geometric objects defined as solutions to polynomial equations. Brendan has written 75 research papers and authored or co-edited eight books. He chaired the Rice University mathematics department from 2009 to 2014. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Brendan received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1996 and spent four years at the University of Chicago as a Dickson Instructor and NSF postdoctoral fellow.