Amir Mohammadi

Amir Mohammadi is an Iranian-American mathematician and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on homogeneous dynamics, ergodic theory, and number theory.

Career Mohammadi earned his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology in 2002 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2009.

Research Mohammadi’s research is primarily in homogeneous dynamics and ergodic theory, with connections to arithmetic groups and Diophantine approximation. He has contributed to results on orbit closures, equidistribution, and measure classification, including work on the Oppenheim conjecture and effective methods in homogeneous spaces.

Awards and honors Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems (2024) Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (2022) Sloan Research Fellowship (2014–2016) von Neumann Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (2015–2016)

Selected publications