Joan Bagaria

Joan Bagaria Pigrau (born August 17, 1958) is a Catalan mathematician, logician and set theorist at ICREA and University of Barcelona. He has made many contributions concerning forcing, large cardinals, infinite combinatorics and their applications to other areas of mathematics.

Biography

Early life (1958 – 1992) Bagaria was born in 1958 in Manlleu, Catalonia, Spain. He earned a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Barcelona in 1981, and an M.A. in philosophy there in 1984. He also held various other positions at UC Berkeley between January 1986 and May 1992, including as a reader, a graduate student instructor, a junior specialist, and a summer session instructor. He served as the first president of the European Set Theory Society (2007–11).

His research work is widely cited, and he has given talks to the general public. He has had nine PhD students.

Some publications