2025 Simons Fellow in Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics is delighted to announce that Professor Cristian D.
Popescu was awarded one of the 2025 Simons Fellowships in Mathematics by the
Simons Foundation.

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees

Professor Popescu will use this award to spend the 2025-2026 academic year as a
Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and as a Member of the School Mathematics at
the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. While in Princeton, Professor Popescu will
investigate new approaches to the theory of special values of motivic L-functions, a
central area of research within number theory and arithmetic geometry.

This is Professor Popescu’s second Simons Fellowship, following a 2015-2016 award
spent as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.

The Simons Foundation, established in 1994 by Jim and Marilyn Simons, advances the
frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences through grant funding,
support for research and public engagement (https://www.simonsfoundation.org).