13 Facts About Robert Zimmer

Robert Jeffrey Zimmer was an American mathematician and academic administrator.

Robert Zimmer then served as chancellor of the University of Chicago until July 2022.

Robert Zimmer graduated from New York's Stuyvesant High School in 1964.

Robert Zimmer conducted his mathematics graduate study at Harvard University, receiving his master's degree in 1971 and his Ph.

Robert Zimmer taught at the United States Naval Academy from 1975 to 1977, and moved to the mathematics department of the University of Chicago in 1977.

Robert Zimmer was on the mathematics faculty and held several administrative positions at the University of Chicago, including Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, Deputy Provost, and Vice President for Research and Argonne National Laboratory before he moved to Brown University as provost in 2002.

Robert Zimmer returned to the University of Chicago as president in 2006.

In 2014, Robert Zimmer formed the Committee on Freedom of Expression whose report came to be known as the Chicago principles, a set of guidelines intended to demonstrate The University of Chicago's commitment to freedom of speech.

An Associated Press report found Robert Zimmer to be the highest-paid college president in the United States in 2011, with total compensation of $3.4 million in that year.

Robert Zimmer's work centered on group actions on manifolds and more general spaces, with applications to topology and geometry.

Robert Zimmer collaborated with a number of mathematicians to apply the ideas from the Robert Zimmer Program to other areas of mathematics.

Robert Zimmer was married to Terese Schwartzman, former director of strategic initiatives for the university's Urban Education Institute, but they separated in September 2009 and later divorced.

Robert Zimmer died in Chicago on May 23,2023, at age 75.