Professor Yuri Manin is Board of Trustees Professor at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, and Professor Emeritus at the MPI (Max Planck Institute) for Mathematics since 1993. He was Senior, then Principal Researcher of Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow 1960 ¡V 1993 and since then he is Principal Researcher in absentia. He was Professor at the University of Moscow 1965 ¡V 1992 and Professor of MIT 1992 ¡V 1993. He was also Director of MPI for Mathematics 1995 ¡V 2005. He worked in algebraic geometry, number theory, mathematical physics and computer science. Among his achievements one can list the proof of the functional case of Mordell conjecture, creation of the theory of modular symbols, a symmetry-based approach to quantum groups, theory of instantons (jointly with Atiyah, Drinfeld, Hitchin), the idea of quantum computation.

He was awarded Lenin Prize 1967, Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize 1994, Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics 1999 and King Faisal International Prize in Mathematics 2002. He is a member/foreign member of several Academies of Sciences, including Russian AS, American AAS and Pontifical AS in Vatican.