Dimitri Leemans (born 1972) is a Belgian mathematician born in Uccle.
Biography Leemans obtained his Licence en Sciences Mathématiques at the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1994 and his doctorate degree, under the supervision of Francis Buekenhout and Michel Dehon in 1998."Classification of RWPRI geometries for the Suzuki simple groups", PhD Thesis, 1998, Dépôt institutionnel, Université libre de Bruxelles
He is currently professor at the mathematics department of the Faculty of Sciences of the Université libre de Bruxelles."Website of the Mathematics Department", Université libre de Bruxelles He lived five years in New Zealand from 2011 until 2016 where he worked for the University of Auckland as an associate professor. He returned to Belgium after experiencing problems with Immigration New Zealand because of his stepson's autism."Prestigious academic to quit New Zealand after son refused residency", The Guardian, 16/02/2016.
Prizes and awards Agathon De Potter prize for the period 2000-2002 from the Academie Royale des Sciences de BelgiqueProclamation des Prix de Concours annuels 2003 et des Prix de Fondations académiques, Bulletins de l'Académie Royale de Belgique 2003, page 405. 2007 Annual Prize in Mathematics from the Academie Royale des Sciences de BelgiqueF. Buekenhout and S. Gutt, Groupe I: Mathématiques. Residually Weakly Primitive and Locally Two-transitive Geometries for Sporadic Groups par Dimitri Leemans. Rapports des Commissaires, Bulletins de l'Académie Royale de Belgique 2007, pp. 395-397 2013-2016 Marsden grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand"Marsden grant awards 2012", Royal Society of New Zealand New Zealand Mathematical Society 2014 Research Award"Awards and Prizes", New Zealand Mathematical Society, last accessed January 16, 2020. 2018 Francois Deruyts Prize in Geometry from the Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique
Research Leemans's principal area of research is at the interface of algebra, computational mathematics, combinatorics and geometry. He has made major contributions in the study of regular and chiral polytopes whose automorphism groups are finite almost simple groups. He has published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and two memoirs of the Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique."Research papers of Dimitri Leemans", Dépôt institutionnel, Université libre de Bruxelles He is the developer of the Magma (computer algebra system) package on incidence geometry and coset geometry since 1999."Acknowledgements", Magma (computer algebra system)
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External links Personal website of Dimitri Leemans