# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zlil-sela
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:31:18.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zlil-sela"
name: "Zlil Sela"
slug: "zlil-sela"
description: "Zlil Sela is an Israeli mathematician working in the area of geometric group theory. He is a Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sela is known for the solution of the isomorphism problem for torsion-free word-hyperbolic groups and for the solution of the Tarski conjecture about equivalence of first-order theories of finitely generated non-abelian free groups."
tagline: "Israeli mathematician"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1965-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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    title: "Zlil Sela"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump