Bagaria i Pigrau, Joan
Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Phone +34934021609
Email bagaria@ub.edu
Department Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica
Address Gran Via de Les Corts Catalanes, 585
Keywords
Set theory
logic
foundations and philosophy of mathematics.
Short biography
Born on 17 August 1958 in Manlleu (Catalonia). Fulbright Fellow at Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1985-87. PhD in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley, 1991. Postdoctoral researcher, UC Berkeley, 1991-92. Associate Professor at several Catalonian universities, 1992-2001. ICREA Research Professor at Univ. of Barcelona, since 2001. Invited researcher at UC Berkeley, Kobe Univ., National Univ. of Singapore, Kurt Gödel Research Center (Vienna), Univ. Paris VII, CalTech, Mittag-Leffler Institut, Hebrew Univ., Harvard Univ., etc. First President of the European Set Theory Society, 2007-11; ICREA Director's Scientific Advisor, since 2005; Chairman of the INFTY ESF-Research Networking Programme, 2009-14; Simons Foundation Fellow at Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, Aug. to Dec. 2015. Director of the Barcelona Research Group on Set Theory (BCNSETS), and coordinator and PI of the UB-based Barcelona Logic Group (BCNLOGIC).