David Eisenbud

David Eisenbud
Eisenbud in 2008
Born	8 April 1947 (1947-04-08) (age 77) New York City, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (2010)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley, and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Thesis	Torsion Modules over Dedekind Prime Rings  (1970)
Doctoral advisor	Saunders Mac Lane
Doctoral students	Craig Huneke Mircea Mustaţă Irena Peeva Frank-Olaf Schreyer

David Eisenbud (born 8 April 1947 in New York City) is an American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and former director of the then Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), now known as Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath). He served as Director of MSRI from 1997 to 2007, and then again from 2013 to 2022.