Director-General and Distinguished Professor Shigefumi Mori elected as foreign member of The Academy of Sciences of Torino

On April 5, The Academy of Sciences of Torino announced the election of KUIAS Director-General Shigefumi Mori as a foreign member. The Academy of Sciences of Torino, founded in the 1783, is a historic scientific academy.

Mori studies algebraic geometry, and is known for discovering the notion of “extremal ray” that greatly contributed to the studies of classification of algebraic three-folds and birational transformations. He proved the existence of “minimal models for three-dimensional algebraic varieties” and for that he was awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1990.