Khanin received his PhD from the
Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in Moscow and continued working there as a
Research Associate until 1994. Afterwards, he taught at
Princeton University, at the
Isaac Newton Institute in
Cambridge, and at
Heriot-Watt University before joining the faculty at the
University of Toronto. Khanin was an invited speaker at the
European Congress of Mathematics in Barcelona in 2000. He was a 2013 Simons Foundation Fellow. He held the Jean-Morlet Chair at the
Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques in 2017, and he was an
Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. In 2021 he was awarded
The Humboldt Prize, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, in recognition of his lifetime's research achievements. ==References==