Aron Simis

Aron Simis is a mathematician born in Recife, Brazil in 1942, of European origin, whose parents immigrated to Brazil from Romania/Moldavia in the 1920s.He is full professor emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, and Class 1A (highest) research scholarship recipient from the Brazilian Research Council.(CNPQ). He earned his PhD from Queen's University, Canada.

He has previously held a full professorship at IMPA (Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was president of the Brazilian Mathematical Society and member on several occasions of international commissions of the IMU (International Mathematical Union) and TWAS (Academy of Sciences for the Developing World). He is full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and of TWAS.

He has been director of three workshops in his field at the ICTP (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics). In Brazil he is a recipient of the National Medal for Scientific Merit at the order of Gră-Cruz and a member of the Brazilian Research Group in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (1997–2007).

At large he is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and has been awarded other fellowships from the Max Planck Institute, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, and the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INDAM) of Italy.

His main research interests in mathematics include: main structures in commutative algebra; projective varieties in algebraic geometry; aspects of algebraic combinatorics; special graded algebras; foundations of Rees algebras; Cremona and birational maps; algebraic vector fields; differential methods.