Péter Varjú

Péter Varjú is a Hungarian mathematician who works in harmonic analysis and ergodic theory. He is a professor at the University of Cambridge.

Education and career Varjú was born in Szeged. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Szeged

He works at the University of Cambridge, as a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

Research Varjú studied the construction of expander graphs with number-theoretic methods involving arithmetic groups and questions about the uniform distribution of random walks in arithmetic groups with Bourgain and in Euclidean isometries with Elon Lindenstrauss.

Recognition Varjú received the 2016 EMS Prize and the 2018 Whitehead Prize. As a graduate student at Princeton, he was also a Fulbright Fellow.

Selected publications