Simons Fellows in Theoretical Physics

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Early Career Award

The Simons Fellows in Theoretical Physics program made sabbatical research leaves more productive by extending them from a single term to a full academic year. Sabbatical research leaves from classroom teaching and administrative obligations can provide strong intellectual stimulation and lead to increased creativity and productivity in theoretical research.

2022 Awardees

Simon Caron-Huot

Principal Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Nonperturbative Bootstrap

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Csaba Csáki

Cornell University

Aida El-Khadra

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Daniel Fisher

Stanford University

Eanna Flanagan

Cornell University

Eun-Ah Kim

Cornell University

Yong Baek Kim

University of Toronto

David Lubensky

University of Michigan

Richard O'Shaughnessy

Rochester Institute of Technology

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Emily Rauscher

University of Michigan

2021 Awardees

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William Bialek

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

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Glennys Farrar

New York University

Alexander Kusenko

University of California, Los Angeles

Finn Larsen

University of Michigan

Rahul Nandkishore

University of Colorado Boulder

2020 Awardees

Lea Ferreira dos Santos

Yeshiva University

Eric Ford

Pennsylvania State University

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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

Director, Simons Collaboration on Celestial Holography

2019 Awardees

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Boris Altshuler

Columbia University

Tony Gherghetta

University of Minnesota

David Huse

Princeton University

Renata Kallosh

Stanford University

Andrei Linde

Stanford University

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Brian Metzger

Senior Research Scientist, Center for Computational Astrophysics

Elena Pierpaoli

University of Southern California

Mark Robbins

Johns Hopkins University

Di Xiao

Carnegie Mellon University

2018 Awardees

Thomas Baumgarte

Bowdoin College

Raphael Bousso

University of California, Berkeley

Bulbul Chakraborty

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

Principal Investigator, Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics

Gil Paz

Wayne State University

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Jesse Thaler

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Todd Thompson

Ohio State University

2017 Awardees

Philip Argyres

University of Cincinnati

Robijn Bruinsma

University of California, Los Angeles

Robert Caldwell

Dartmouth College

Claudio Chamon

Boston University

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Aashish Clerk

University of Chicago

Eric D'Hoker

University of California, Los Angeles

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Matthew Headrick

Principal Investigator, It from Qubit: Simons Collaboration on Quantum Fields, Gravity and Information

Andrew Jordan

University of Rochester

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Gabriel Kotliar

Principal Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem

Alice Quillen

University of Rochester

Lisa Randall

Harvard University

Marcus Spradlin

Brown University

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Neal Weiner

New York University

2016 Awardees

Zoltán Haiman

Columbia University

Lawrence Hall

University of California, Berkeley

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Jeffrey Harvey

University of Chicago

Wick Haxton

University of California, Berkeley

Petr Hořava

University of California, Berkeley

Clifford Johnson

University of Southern California

Catherine Kallin

McMaster University

Eun-Ah Kim

Cornell University

Dong Lai

Cornell University

Tom Lubensky

University of Pennsylvania

Mark Newman

University of Michigan

Maxim Perelstein

Cornell University

Andrew Strominger

Director, Simons Collaboration on Celestial Holography

Timo Thonhauser

Wake Forest University

2015 Awardees

Robert Brandenberger

McGill University

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Eugene Demler

Harvard University

Veit Elser

Cornell University

Steven Furlanetto

University of California, Los Angeles

Charles Gammie

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Michael Gutperle

University of California, Los Angeles

Elizabeth Jenkins

University of California, San Diego

Patrick Lee

University of California, San Diego

Aneesh Manohar

University of California, San Diego

Adilson Motter

Northwestern University

Stephen Naculich

Bowdoin College

Frank Timmes

Arizona State University

Nandini Trivedi

Ohio State University

Paul Wiegmann

University of Chicago

2014 Awardees

Zvi Bern

University of California, Los Angeles

Eric G. Blackman

University of Rochester

Piers Coleman

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Keshav Dasgupta

McGill University

Benjamin Davidovitch

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Andrei Derevianko

University of Nevada, Reno

Charles Doering

University of Michigan

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Glennys Farrar

New York University

Paul Ginsparg

Cornell University

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Michael Hermele

University of Colorado Boulder

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Andrea Liu

Principal Investigator, Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem

Liam McAllister

Cornell University

Sonia Paban

University of Texas at Austin

Christopher Reynolds

University of Maryland, College Park

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Anders Sandvik

Boston University

David Vanderbilt

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Thomas Weiler

Vanderbilt University

2013 Awardees

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Roger Blandford

Director, Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources

Eric Braaten

The Ohio State University

Mirjam Cvetic

Principal Investigator, Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics

Yuval Grossman

Cornell University

F. D. M. Haldane

Princeton University

Erika Birgit Kaufmann

Institute for Advanced Study

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Alexander Maloney

Principal Investigator, It from Qubit: Simons Collaboration on Quantum Fields, Gravity and Information

M Cristina Marchetti

Syracuse University

Roberto Merlin

University of Michigan

Kimball Milton

University of Oklahoma

Aditi Mitra

New York University

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Leonardo Rastelli

Director, Simons Collaboration on the Nonperturbative Bootstrap

Witold Skiba

Yale University

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Anatoly Spitkovsky

Princeton University

Nicholas Warner

University of Southern California

2012 Awardees

Brett Esry

Kansas State University

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Jonathan Feng

University of California, Irvine

Katherine Freese

University of Michigan

Steven Giddings

University of California, Santa Barbara

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Steven Gubser

Princeton University

Tin-Lun Ho

Ohio State University

Vassiliki Kalogera

Northwestern University

Hong Liu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Steven Louie

University of California, Berkeley

Ian Low

Northwestern University

Maxim Lyutikov

Purdue University

Chung-Pei Ma

University of California, Berkeley

Cole Miller

University of Maryland, College Park

Gregory Moore

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Yasunori Nomura

University of California, Berkeley

Warren Pickett

University of California, Davis

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Anatoli Polkovnikov

Boston University

Mark Robbins

Johns Hopkins University

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Paul Steinhardt

Princeton University

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Senthil Todadri

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Toner

University of Oregon

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Salvatore Torquato

Princeton University

Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

University of California, Los Angeles

Smitha Vishveshwara

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Ashvin Vishwanath

Director, Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter

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Anastasia Volovich

Brown University

Shoucheng Zhang

Stanford University

More Funding Opportunities

The Fellows-to-Faculty Award program supports talented early career scientists by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. The focus of this program is the $600,000 USD three (3) year faculty research grant.

Apply by January 13, 2027

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Apply by December 1, 2026

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