Respected mathematician Kenji Fukaya leaves US to teach at China’s Tsinghua University

Kenji Fukaya, a Japanese mathematician “with global influence”, has been appointed a full-time professor at Tsinghua University’s Yau Mathematical Sciences Centre. - Photo: Tsinghua University

BEIJING: Award-winning Japanese mathematician Kenji Fukaya has left Stony Brook University in the US to join China’s Tsinghua University as a full-time professor.

Fukaya, previously a permanent member of the Simons Centre for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook, delivered his first lecture at Tsinghua on September 11, according to the university’s Yau Mathematical Sciences Centre.