Lazarsfeld received his B.A. from
Harvard College in 1975 and earned his Ph.D. from
Brown University in 1980 under supervision of
William Fulton. From 1983 to 1998, Lazarsfeld was an assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of mathematics at
UCLA. He joined the faculty of the
University of Michigan in 1997 and served as the Raymond L. Wilder Collegiate Professor there from 2007 to 2013. In 2013 he joined the faculty of
Stony Brook University, where he was the chair of the Mathematics Department from 2016-2019. Since 2015, he is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook. From 2002–2009, Lazarsfeld was an editor at the
Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Managing Editor, 2007–2009). In 2012–2013, he served as the Managing Editor of the
Michigan Mathematical Journal. == Awards and honors ==