2020 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Announced
The Simons Foundation congratulates the outstanding mathematicians and theoretical physicists who have been awarded Simons Fellowships in 2020. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research for the long periods often necessary for significant advances. The foundation is proud to support the work of these distinguished scientists.
Theoretical Physics
| Lea Ferreira dos Santos | Yeshiva University |
| Eric Ford | Pennsylvania State University |
| Kristjan Haule | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| Lam Hui | Columbia University |
| Christopher Jarzynski | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Mehran Kardar | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Aaron Pierce | University of Michigan |
| Andrew Strominger | Harvard University |
Mathematics
| Benjamin Antieau | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Jozsef Balogh | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Jacob Bedrossian | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Roman Bezrukavnikov | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Paul Bourgade | New York University |
| Martin Bridgeman | Boston College |
| Richard Canary | University of Michigan |
| Jonathan Chaika | University of Utah |
| Xiaohui Chen | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Artem Chernikov | University of California, Los Angeles |
| David Damanik | William Marsh Rice University |
| Mark de Cataldo | Stony Brook University |
| Adrian Diaconu | University of Minnesota – Twin Cities |
| Nathan Dunfield | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| David Fisher | Indiana University |
| Mohammad Ghomi | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Michael Harris | Columbia University |
| Svetlana Jitomirskaya | University of California, Irvine |
| Tasho Kaletha | University of Michigan |
| Boris Khesin | University of Toronto |
| Marcus Khuri | Stony Brook University |
| Alexander Kiselev | Duke University |
| Leonid Koralov | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Michael Lacey | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Yanyan Li | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| Victor Lie | Purdue University |
| Mauro Maggioni | Johns Hopkins University |
| Elizabeth Meckes | Case Western Reserve University |
| Hee Oh | Yale University |
| Richard Schwartz | Brown University |
| Karl Schwede | University of Utah |
| Konstantinos Spiliopoulos | Boston University |
| Bianca Viray | University of Washington |
| Z. Jane Wang | Cornell University |
| Rachel Ward | University of Texas at Austin |
| Juncheng Wei | University of British Columbia |
| Elisabeth Werner | Case Western Reserve University |
| Ting Zhou | Northeastern University |
| Xinwen Zhu | California Institute of Technology |
| Aleksey Zinger | Stony Brook University |
