Tschinkel attended from 1979, the
Erweiterte Oberschule Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium in
East Berlin and passed there in 1983 the
Abitur. He graduated with honors from
Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1990 and received his doctorate in 1992 from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology with thesis
Rational points on algebraic surfaces under the supervision of
Yuri Manin and
Michael Artin. From 1992 to 1995 Tschinkel was a junior fellow at
Harvard University. In 1995 he became an assistant professor at the
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and from 1999 to 2003 he was an associate professor there. From 2003 to 2008 he was a professor at the
University of Göttingen. He has been a professor at the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of
New York University since 2005 and, since 2012, director of the
Simons Foundation's Department of Mathematics and Physics. He has been a visiting scholar at the
École Polytechnique, the
Institut des hautes études scientifiques, the
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, the
Isaac Newton Institute at the
University of Cambridge,
Stanford University,
Princeton University (1999 to 2003), Kyoto's
Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and the
University of Tokyo. Tschinkel does research on rational points on algebraic varieties and other questions of
arithmetic geometry. He is the author or co-author of over 110 research publications. He has been a co-editor of several anthologies and conference reports on arithmetic geometry,
e.g., co-editor with
William Duke of the Gauß–Dirichlet conference in Göttingen in 2005 and also co-editor with Yuri Zarhin of the Festschrift for his teacher Yuri Manin. In 1995–1996 Tschinkel was a Leibniz Fellow of the
European Union at the
École normale supérieure in
Paris, and in 2001–2002 he was
Clay Mathematics Institute Fellow. In 2006, he was an Invited Speaker with talk
Geometry over nonclosed fields at the
International Congress of Mathematicians in
Madrid. Tschinkel has German and American citizenships. He was elected a Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society in 2012. In 2018 he was elected a member of the
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. ==Selected publications==