Stanisław Szarek

Stanisław J. Szarek (born November 13, 1953) is a Polish professor of mathematics at both Case Western Reserve University in the USA (since 1983) and Pierre and Marie Curie University in France (since 1996). His research concerns convex geometry and functional analysis. He continued at the Polish Academy as a research fellow for four years before taking a faculty position at Case,

Szarek won a gold medal in the 1971 International Mathematical Olympiad. In 2007 he won the Langevin Prize of the French Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society and in 2017 he was awarded the Sierpiński medal.