Simons Fellows in Theoretical Physics
- Program Area
- Mathematics & Physical Sciences
- Type
- Early Career Award
2022 Awardees
Simon Caron-Huot
Principal Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Nonperturbative Bootstrap
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
Emily Rauscher
University of Michigan
2021 Awardees
William Bialek
Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain
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
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
Boris Altshuler
Columbia University
Tony Gherghetta
University of Minnesota
David Huse
Princeton University
Renata Kallosh
Stanford University
Andrei Linde
Stanford University
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
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
Aashish Clerk
University of Chicago
Eric D'Hoker
University of California, Los Angeles
Matthew Headrick
Principal Investigator, It from Qubit: Simons Collaboration on Quantum Fields, Gravity and Information
Andrew Jordan
University of Rochester
Gabriel Kotliar
Principal Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem
Alice Quillen
University of Rochester
Lisa Randall
Harvard University
Marcus Spradlin
Brown University
Neal Weiner
New York University
2016 Awardees
Zoltán Haiman
Columbia University
Lawrence Hall
University of California, Berkeley
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
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
Glennys Farrar
New York University
Paul Ginsparg
Cornell University
Michael Hermele
University of Colorado Boulder
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
Anders Sandvik
Boston University
David Vanderbilt
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Thomas Weiler
Vanderbilt University
2013 Awardees
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
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
Leonardo Rastelli
Director, Simons Collaboration on the Nonperturbative Bootstrap
Witold Skiba
Yale University
Anatoly Spitkovsky
Princeton University
Nicholas Warner
University of Southern California
2012 Awardees
Brett Esry
Kansas State University
Jonathan Feng
University of California, Irvine
Katherine Freese
University of Michigan
Steven Giddings
University of California, Santa Barbara
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
Anatoli Polkovnikov
Boston University
Mark Robbins
Johns Hopkins University
Paul Steinhardt
Princeton University
Senthil Todadri
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Toner
University of Oregon
Salvatore Torquato
Princeton University
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak
University of California, Los Angeles
Smitha Vishveshwara
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ashvin Vishwanath
Director, Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter
Anastasia Volovich
Brown University
Shoucheng Zhang
Stanford University
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