Mark Kisin

Mark Kisin is Perkins Professor of Mathematics and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University. His work is primarily in the areas of algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry. In particular, Kisin has made contributions to the study of p-adic representations and p-adic cohomology.

He received his B.Sc. from Monash University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney and then at the University of Münster, before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago and then becoming a professor at Harvard in 2009.