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The Simons Foundation congratulates the 52 outstanding mathematicians and theoretical physicists who have been awarded Simons Fellowships in 2018. 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.
| Thomas Baumgarte | Bowdoin College |
| Raphael Bousso | University of California, Berkeley |
| Bulbul Chakraborty | Brandeis University |
| Marc Favata | Montclair State University |
| Gregory Fiete | University of Texas at Austin |
| Julian Krolik | Johns Hopkins University |
| Anna Krylov | University of Southern California |
| Emil Martinec | University of Chicago |
| David Morrison | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Gil Paz | Wayne State University |
| Jesse Thaler | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Todd Thompson | Ohio State University |
| Marcelo Aguiar | Cornell University |
| Anar Akhmedov | University of Minnesota |
| Dmytro Arinkin | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Aaron Bertram | University of Utah |
| Lydia Bieri | University of Michigan |
| Alexander Braverman | University of Toronto |
| Ching-Li Chai | University of Pennsylvania |
| Jingyi Chen | University of British Columbia |
| Yingda Cheng | Michigan State University |
| Jordan Ellenberg | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Rui Loja Fernandes | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Amanda Folsom | Amherst College |
| Michael Goldstein | University of Toronto |
| Alexander Goncharov | Yale University |
| Anton Gorodetski | University of California, Irvine |
| Antonella Grassi | University of Pennsylvania |
| Lan-Hsuan Huang | University of Connecticut |
| David Jerison | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Jeffrey Lagarias | University of Michigan |
| Claude LeBrun | Stony Brook University |
| Lionel Levine | Cornell University |
| Marta Lewicka | University of Pittsburgh |
| Max Lieblich | University of Washington |
| Jacob Lurie | Harvard University |
| Govind Menon | Brown University |
| Antonio Montalban | University of California, Berkeley |
| Mircea Mustata | University of Michigan |
| Alexei Oblomkov | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Sam Payne | Yale University |
| Olga Plamenevskaya | Stony Brook University |
| Kavita Ramanan | Brown University |
| Sebastien Roch | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Federico Rodríguez Hertz | Pennsylvania State University |
| Sunder Sethuraman | University of Arizona |
| Roman Shvydkoy | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Yannick Sire | Johns Hopkins University |
| Christopher Sogge | Johns Hopkins University |
| Frank Thorne | University of South Carolina |
| Shankar Venkataramani | University of Arizona |
| Alexander Vladimirsky | Cornell University |
