Micha Sharir received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University 
in 1976, and then switched to Computer Science, doing his postdoctoral 
studies at the Courant Institute of New York University. He returned 
to Tel Aviv University in 1980, and has been there, at the School of 
Computer Science, ever since. He is also a visiting research professor 
at the Courant Institute, where he has been the deputy head of the 
Robotics Lab (1985-89).  He has served as the head of the Computer 
Science Department (twice) and as the head of the School of Mathematics 
(1997-99). He is one of the co-founders of the Minerva Center for 
Geometry at Tel Aviv University.

His research interests are in computational and combinatorial 
geometry and their applications. He has pioneered (with Jack Schwartz) 
the study of algorithmic motion planning in robotics during the early 
1980s, and has been involved in many fundamental research studies that 
have helped to shape the fields of computational and combinatorial 
geometry. Among his major achievements, in addition to his earlier 
work on robotics, are the study of Davenport-Schinzel sequences and 
their numerous geometric applications, the study of geometric 
arrangements and their applications, efficient algorithms in 
geometric optimization (including the introduction and analysis 
of generalized linear programming), and the study of combinatorial 
problems involving point configurations, including, since 2008, the
application of algebraic techniques to problems involving incidences,
distinct and repeated distances, and other related problems in combinatorial
and computational geometry.

His work won him several prizes, including a Max-Planck research 
prize (1992, jointly with Emo Welzl),  the Feher Prize (1999), 
the Mif'al Hapais' Landau Prize (2002), and the EMET Prize (2007).
He is the incumbent of the Nizri Chair in computational geometry 
and robotics, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery 
(since 1997), has an honorary doctorate degree from the 
University of Utrecht (1996), and is a member of the Israeli
Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2018). He has supervised 27 Ph.D. 
students, many of which are now at various stages of an academic 
career, in Israel and abroad.