| Philipp Habegger | |
| Birth Date: | 23 July 1978 |
| Nationality: | Swiss |
| Field: | Mathematics |
| Work Institutions: | University of BaselUniversity of ZurichETH Zurich |
| Alma Mater: | University of Basel |
| Doctoral Advisor: | David Masser |
| Thesis Title: | Heights and Multiplicative Relations on Algebraic Varieties |
| Thesis Year: | 2007 |
Philipp Habegger (born 23 July 1978) is a Swiss mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Basel who works in Diophantine geometry.
Habegger was born on 23 July 1978. He received his Ph.D. under the supervision of David Masser at the University of Basel in 2007.
From 2008 to 2010, Habegger was a ETH Fellow at ETH Zurich.[1] He moved to the University of Zurich for a lectureship position in 2010.[1] In 2013, he was a von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.[2] As of 2021, Habegger is a professor of mathematics at the University of Basel.[3]
Habegger's research focuses on height functions and their applications to unlikely intersections.[2]