Tuna Altınel
Tuna Altınel is a Turkish mathematician, born February 12, 1966, in Istanbul, who has worked at the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, University Lyon 1 in France since 1996. He is a specialist in group theory and mathematical logic. With Alexandre Borovik and Gregory Cherlin, he proved a major case of the Stable group, Cherlin–Zilber conjecture.; Altınel is active in the Academics for Peace movement, which supports a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, conflict in south-eastern Turkey, and calls for the human rights of the civilian population to be respected. Accused by the Turkish authorities of membership in a terrorist organization, Altınel has been imprisoned since May 11, 2019, at the Kepsut prison in Turkey. Education and career After undergraduate studies in mathematics and computer science at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Altınel received his doctorate from Rutgers University (New Jersey, United States) under the direction of Gregory Cherlin. ...
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