James Colliander, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

James Colliander

American, Canadian mathematician

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1967

Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas, United States

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

James Ellis Colliander (born 22 June 1967) is an American-Canadian mathematician.
He is currently Professor of Mathematics at University of British Columbia and serves as Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.
Colliander is also the Founder of an education technology company called Crowdmark.
He was born in El Paso, Texas, and lived there until age 8 and then moved to Hastings, Minnesota.
He graduated from Macalester College in 1989.
He worked for two years at the United States Naval Research Laboratory on fiber optic sensors and then went to graduate school to study mathematics.
He received his Ph.D.
from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1997 and was advised by Jean Bourgain.
Colliander was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and spent semesters at the University of Chicago, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. He is also an award-winning teacher.