The Simons Foundation congratulates the outstanding mathematicians and theoretical physicists who have been awarded Simons Fellowships in 2021. 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

Simon Caron-HuotMcGill University

Csaba CsákiCornell University

Aida El-KhadraUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Daniel FisherStanford University

Eanna FlanaganCornell University

Eun-Ah KimCornell University

Yong Baek KimUniversity of Toronto

David LubenskyUniversity of Michigan

Richard O’ShaughnessyRochester Institute of Technology

Emily RauscherUniversity of Michigan

Mathematics

David F. AndersonUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

Jason BehrstockLehman College

Jin-Yi CaiUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

Xuwen ChenUniversity of Rochester

Vaughn ClimenhagaUniversity of Houston

Henri DarmonMcGill University

Giovanni ForniUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Ailana FraserUniversity of British Columbia

Alexander GoncharovYale University

Matthew GurskyUniversity of Notre Dame

Piotr HajłaszUniversity of Pittsburgh

Jennifer HomGeorgia Institute of Technology

Adrian IoanaUniversity of California, San Diego

Nataša JonoskaUniversity of South Florida

Jeff KahnRutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Jeremy KahnBrown University

Chanwoo KimUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

Dmitry KleinbockBrandeis University

Alexander KleshchevUniversity of Oregon

Sándor KovácsUniversity of Washington

Michael LarsenIndiana University

H. Blaine LawsonStony Brook University

Melvin LeokUniversity of California, San Diego

Tao LiBoston College

Ayelet LindenstraussIndiana University

Robert LipshitzUniversity of Oregon

Robert J. McCannUniversity of Toronto

Emily RiehlJohns Hopkins University

Mark RudelsonUniversity of Michigan

Rayan SaabUniversity of California, San Diego

Laurent Saloff-CosteCornell University

Michael StillmanCornell University

Vesna StojanoskaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jeffrey D. StreetsUniversity of California, Irvine

Pham Huu TiepRutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Alex TownsendCornell University

Mariusz UrbańskiUniversity of North Texas

Alexander ZupanUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln

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