Rate My Professor Victor Beresnevich

Victor Beresnevich is Professor of Mathematics at the University of York, currently designated as Head of the Pure Mathematics Section for Semester 1 of the academic year 2025-2026. He earned his PhD and DSc degrees from institutions in Minsk. Throughout his career at the University of York, he has progressed through positions including Research Assistant, Advanced Research Fellow, Reader, Deputy Head of Department, and Professor. Beresnevich is a key member of the University's number theory group, a leading national centre of excellence in Diophantine approximation and analytic number theory. His research specializations include metric number theory and Diophantine approximation, along with geometry of numbers, uniform distribution, measure and probability theory, fractal geometry, ergodic theory, dynamical systems, and applications to partial differential equations and signal processing. He works closely with Jason Levesley and Sanju Velani on challenges such as the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture, approximation by algebraic numbers, badly approximable vectors, Diophantine approximation on manifolds, and shrinking target problems in dynamical systems.

Beresnevich's contributions to mathematics are reflected in over 3,265 citations on Google Scholar. Major publications encompass "A Mass Transference Principle and the Duffin-Schaeffer Conjecture for Hausdorff Measures" (Annals of Mathematics, 2006), "Rational Points near Manifolds and Metric Diophantine Approximation" (Annals of Mathematics, 2012), "Khintchine's Theorem and Diophantine Approximation on Manifolds" (Acta Mathematica, 2023), and "The Dimension of Well Approximable Numbers" (Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 2026). He contributed to "Dynamics and Analytic Number Theory" (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and co-edited "Number Theory Meets Wireless Communications" (Springer, 2021). As Managing Editor of Mathematika for the London Mathematical Society, he contributes to academic publishing. Beresnevich supervises PhD students, such as Dorsa Vakilzadeh Hatefi, and has given lectures on lattice points counting and Diophantine approximability on manifolds.