Ana Caraiani
Romania mathematician
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Ana Caraiani (born 1984)[1] is a Romanian mathematician, who is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor at Imperial College London. Her research interests include algebraic number theory and the Langlands program.
- Alice T. Schafer Prize (2007)
- Whitehead Prize (2018)
- American Mathematical Society Fellow (2020)
- EMS Prize (2020)
- New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2023)
- Satter Prize (2025)
Ana Caraiani | |
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| Born | 1984 (age 41–42) Bucharest, Romania |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Local-global compatibility and the action of monodromy on nearby cycles (2012) |
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Other academic advisors | Andrew Wiles |
Education
She was born in Bucharest[2] and studied at Mihai Viteazul High School.[3] In 2001, Caraiani became the first Romanian female competitor in 25 years at the International Mathematical Olympiad, where she won a silver medal. In the following two years, she won two gold medals.[4][5][3]
After graduating high school in 2003, she pursued her studies in the United States.[6] As an undergraduate student at Princeton University, Caraiani was a two-time Putnam Fellow (the only female competitor at the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition to win more than once) and Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Award winner.[4][7][8] Caraiani graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in 2007, with an undergraduate thesis on Galois representations supervised by Andrew Wiles.[4]
Caraiani did her graduate studies at Harvard University under the supervision of Wiles' student Richard Taylor, earning her Ph.D. in 2012 with a dissertation concerning local-global compatibility in the Langlands correspondence.[4][9]
Career
After spending a year as an L.E. Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago, she returned to Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study as a Veblen Instructor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow.[4] In 2016, she moved to the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics as a Bonn Junior Fellow.[4] She moved to Imperial College London in 2017 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer.[4] In 2019, she became a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader at Imperial College London.[4] As of 2021, Caraiani is a full professor at Imperial College London.[10] She was also Hausdorff Chair at University of Bonn in 2022-2023. [11]
Recognition
In 2007, the Association for Women in Mathematics awarded Caraiani their Alice T. Schafer Prize.[4][7] In 2018, she was one of the winners of the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society.[12]
She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to arithmetic geometry and number theory, in particular the -adic Langlands program".[13] She is one of the 2020 winners of the EMS Prize.[14] In September 2022 she was awarded the 2023 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize.[15] She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2024.[16] In 2025 she was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics.[1]
