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American mathematician (1972-)

Christopher McLean Skinner (born June 4, 1972) is an American mathematician and professor at Princeton University. He works in algebraic number theory and arithmetic aspects of the Langlands program.

Early life and education

Skinner was born on June 4, 1972 in Little Rock, Arkansas.^[1] Skinner graduated with a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1993.^[1] He received a Ph.D.

from Princeton University in 1997 under the supervision of Andrew Wiles.^[1]

Career

Skinner was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1997 to 2000.^[1] He was then an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan from 2000 to 2004, and then a full professor from 2004 to 2006.^[1] He became a professor of mathematics at Princeton University in 2006.^[1]

Research

Skinner and Wiles proved modularity results for residually reducible Galois representations in