Alexandru Zaharescu

Alexandru Zaharescu
Born(1961-06-04)4 June 1961
NationalityRomanian
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Princeton University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Number theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
Doctoral advisorsNicolae Popescu
Peter Sarnak

Alexandru Zaharescu (born June 4, 1961) is a Romanian mathematician. He is a professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and a Honorary Member at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. He has two PhDs in mathematics, one from the University of Bucharest in 1991 under the direction of Nicolae Popescu, the other from Princeton University in 1995 under the direction of Peter Sarnak. Zaharescu made numerous contributions to number theory. In total, he has more than 350 publications.