Alex Eskin, Ph.D.
University of Chicago![Portrait photo of Alex Eskin](https://simonsfoundation.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/11210721/Eskin-spotlight-head.jpg?auto=format&w=120&h=120&fit=crop&crop=faces&q=90)
Alex Eskin is a 2014 Simons Investigator in Mathematics and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. A large part of his work has centered on mathematical billiards and geometric group theory, for which he received the Clay Research Prize in 2007.