Alexei Skorobogatov

Alexei Nikolaievich Skorobogatov (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Скоробога́тов) - a British-Russian mathematician, a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London specialising in algebraic geometry.
He completed his dissertation under the supervision of Yuri Manin, for which he was awarded a Ph.D. degree.
He has published papers: on rational points, -the Hasse principle -the Manin obstruction, -exponential sums, -combinatorics -error-correcting codes.
In 2001 he was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society.

• Alexei Skorobogatov (2001). Torsors and Rational Points. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-80237-6. 
• Alexei Skorobogatov; Miles Reid (2004). Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54518-1.