Aise Johan de Jong

Aise Johan de Jong ( born January 30, 1966 in Bruges ) is a Belgian -born Dutch mathematician who is engaged in algebraic geometry.

De Jong attended high school in The Hague and studied from 1984 at the University of Leiden, where he received his diploma at Van de Ven. From 1987 he was at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (Nijmegen ), where he earned his doctorate under Joseph Brink Steen and Frans Oort "cum laude " in 1992. He then spent a year at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, at the University of Bielefeld and 3 years as a fellow of the Dutch Academy of Sciences at the University of Utrecht. After a year as an assistant professor at Harvard and two years at Princeton University, he was a professor at MIT. 2005/ 06 he was at Columbia University, where he is currently (2009) is a professor.

2000 he received the Cole prize in Algebra for his studies on the solubility of singularities with alterations, specifically for working Smoothness, semi- stability and Alterations ( Publications Mathematiques IHES, Bd.83, 1996, p.51). The theory of alterations created a simpler, more geometric approach to the problem of resolution of singularities in which the original proof ( for characteristic 0 ) by Heisuke Hironaka was very complicated. He also works in arithmetic algebraic geometry.