Mircea Immanuel Mustață (; born 1971 in

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) is a

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mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Mustață received from the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princ ...

a bachelor's degree in 1995 and a master's degree in 1996 and from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

a PhD in 2001 with thesis advisor

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and thesis ''Singularities and Jet Schemes''. As a postdoc he was at the

University of Nice Sophia Antipolis The University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (french: Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) was a university located in Nice, France and neighboring areas. It was founded in 1965 and was organized in eight faculties, two autonomous institutes and an eng ...

(Fall 2001), at the

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(Spring 2002), and at

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(2002–2004); he was from 2001 to 2004 a

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. At the

University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

he became in 2004 an associate professor and in 2008 a full professor. In fall 2006, he was at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

. From 2006 to 2011 he held a five-year

Packard Fellowship The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation that provides grants to not-for-profit organizations. It was created in 1964 by David Packard (co-founder of HP) and his wife Lucile Salter Packard. Following David Packard's deat ...

. Mustață was an invited speaker at the European Mathematical Congress in 2004 Stockholm and at the

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in 2014 in Seoul. His research deals with a wide range of topics in algebraic geometry, including: Mustață's doctoral students include the Fields medalist

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Personal life

Mustață currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he works at the University of Michigan. He lives with his wife, Olga, and daughter, Maya. His hobbies include hiking, reading, and playing board games.

Selected publications

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mustata, Mircea 21st-century Romanian mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Algebraic geometers University of Bucharest alumni University of Michigan faculty 1971 births Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni Romanian emigrants to the United States