User:Scorpan

Alexandru Scorpan is MSP's chief of operations. He was born near the shores of the Black Sea, in Romania, and arrived in the United States in 1997. In 2003, he received a PhD in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley under Rob Kirby, then pursued an academic career. During a postdoc at the University of Florida, he wrote a well-received 600-page monograph, The Wild World of 4-Manifolds, surveying topology in dimension 4. He finally admitted, “I’m not a puzzle-solver,” and abandoned the research track, but continued to teach college mathematics for several years. Alex became involved with MSP in 2006, at first doing copyediting and design work. He returned to Berkeley and joined MSP full-time in mid-2010.