Alexandru Dimca

Alexandru Dimca (born July 21, 1953) is a French-Romanian mathematician, who works in algebraic geometry at Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis.

Education and career Dimca was born in Cernavodă on 21 July 1953. He competed in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1970, 1971, and 1972, earning one bronze medal and two silver medals. He obtained his PhD in 1981 from the University of Bucharest; his thesis "Stable mappings and singularities", was written under the direction of Gheorghe Galbură.

Among his influential professors we mention Dan Burghelea, Martin Jurchescu, Constantin Bănica, and Lucian Bădescu. Dimca's Google Scholar h-index is 38.

Dimca is a distinguished mathematician working in various aspects of algebra, geometry, and topology. He has written four important books in this field: Hyperplane Arrangements, Sheaves in Topology, Singularities and Topology of Hypersurfaces, and Topics on real and complex singularities as well as more than 180 journal papers.

Dimca started his research career in Romania, where he worked at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy from 1979 to 1988. He then was a visiting member at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. After working as Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney from 1991 to 1994, he became a professor at the University of Bordeaux, from where he moved in 2004 to Côte d'Azur University in Nice. Doctor Honoris Causa from Ovidius University in 2007. Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France from 2011 to 2016.

Personal life Alexandru Dimca is married to Gabriela and has three children, Jean, Georges and Maria.

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