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Award-winning mathematician Vladimir Markovic, a fellow of the Royal Society in Britain, has joined China’s top maths institute at Tsinghua University.
Markovic, a professor of mathematics, joined Tsinghua’s Yau Mathematical Sciences Centre from the University of Oxford, where he has also served as a senior research fellow since 2020.
The research institute in Beijing was set up with Chinese-American mathematician Yau Shing-Tung as director, who retired from Harvard University in the United States to teach full-time at Tsinghua in 2022.
Markovic has been part of the centre’s leadership since September, along with three mathematicians from Iran, Russia and Japan, according to the centre’s website.
Among them is Japanese mathematician Kenji Fukaya who joined Tsinghua University as a full-time professor in September, after leaving Stony Brook University in the US.
Fukaya has said he hopes more researchers born in China will return to the country to teach and to help build a community of outstanding mathematicians.
Chinese students showed strong dedication and focus when studying mathematics, Fukaya said, adding that they reminded him of Japanese students from his youth.
Markovic, who researches low-dimensional geometry, topology and dynamics, and functional and geometric analysis, has also joined the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, overseen by Yau.


Born in Germany, the British researcher studies the shape and structure of topological spaces, known as manifolds and has solved widely known mathematical problems in hyperbolic geometry, according to the Royal Society, where he was elected as a fellow in 2014.
Markovic was awarded the Simons Investigator Award in 2016 for his contributions to the theory of three-dimensional manifolds and for resolving several long-standing problems, and the Clay Research Award in 2012 for his work in hyperbolic geometry.
After earning his doctorate from the University of Belgrade in Serbia in 1998, Markovic taught at universities in Britain and the US, including the University of Cambridge, the University of Warwick, the California Institute of Technology, Stony Brook University and the University of Minnesota.


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