Aaron Naber named 2023 Simons Investigator in Mathematics

Professor Aaron Naber, of the Department of Mathematics, was named a 2023 Simons Investigator in Mathematics. Naber is the Kenneth F. Burgess Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern, and is the second Northwestern professor ever to receive this honor.

The Simons Investigators program supports a small number of exceptional mathematicians and theoretical scientists in the categories of Mathematics, Physics, Astrophysics and Computer Science. Presented annually by the Simons Foundation, the goal of the program is to “support outstanding theoretical scientists in their most productive years, when they are establishing creative new research directions, providing leadership to the field and effectively mentoring junior scientists.”

Naber works on geometrically motivated equations and their applications. His research primarily focuses on the study of manifolds with Ricci curvature bounds and their possible degenerations in limit spaces. As a Simons Investigator, Naber will receive $100,000 in research support annually for five years and additional indirect funds to the math department and Northwestern University.

Read more about Naber’s research on his website.