Biography:Ana Caraiani

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Ana Caraiani
Born1985 (age 40–41)
Bucharest, Romania
Alma mater
Awards
  • Alice T. Schafer Prize (2007)
  • Whitehead Prize (2018)
  • American Mathematical Society Fellow (2020)
  • EMS Prize (2020)
  • New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
ThesisLocal-global compatibility and the action of monodromy on nearby cycles (2012)
Doctoral advisorRichard Taylor
Other academic advisorsAndrew Wiles

Ana Caraiani (born 1985)[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.

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 15 years at the International Mathematical Olympiad, where she won a silver medal. In the following two years, she won two gold medals.[4][1][3]

After graduating high school in 2003, she pursued her studies in the United States.[5] 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][6][7] 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][8]

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.[9] She was also Hausdorff Chair at University of Bonn in 2022-2023. [10]

Recognition

In 2007, the Association for Women in Mathematics awarded Caraiani their Alice T. Schafer Prize.[4][6] In 2018, she was one of the winners of the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society.[11]

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 p-adic Langlands program".[12] She is one of the 2020 winners of the EMS Prize.[13] In September 2022 she was awarded the 2023 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize.[14] She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2024.[15]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rimer, Sara (October 10, 2008), "Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds", The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/education/10math.html, retrieved January 6, 2021 
  2. ↑ 50 Top Women in STEM, October 29, 2020, https://thebestschools.org/features/50-top-women-in-stem/, retrieved January 6, 2021 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Ana Caraiani – de la "Mihai Viteazul" – medalie de aur si la Olimpiada de Matematica de la Tokyo" (in Romanian), Curierul Național, July 21, 2003, http://www.curierulnational.ro/Eveniment/2003-07-21/Ana+Caraiani+-+de+la+%E2%80%9EMihai+Viteazul%E2%80%9C+-+medalie+de+aur+si+la+Olimpiada+de+Matematica+de+la+Tokyo, retrieved December 30, 2014 .
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Ana Caraiani, http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~acaraian/cv.pdf, retrieved March 21, 2021 
  5. ↑ "Ana: matematica pură" (in ro), Jurnalul Național, May 31, 2004, https://jurnalul.ro/special-jurnalul/ana-matematica-pura-68131.html, retrieved January 6, 2021 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Seventeenth Annual Alice T. Schafer Prize, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved December 30, 2014.
  7. ↑ Young, Ellen (April 14, 2004), "Caraiani wins prestigious Putnam prize at math competition", Daily Princetonian, http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2004/04/caraiani-wins-prestigious-putnam-prize-at-math-competition/, retrieved December 30, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Ana Caraiani at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  9. ↑ Home – Professor Ana Caraiani, https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.caraiani, retrieved September 10, 2021 
  10. ↑ Home – Professor Ana Caraiani CV, https://www.ma.imperial.ac.uk/~acaraian/cv.pdf, retrieved August 19, 2025 
  11. ↑ "Prizes of the London Mathematical Society", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 65 (9): 1122, October 2018, https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201809/rnoti-p1118.pdf 
  12. ↑ 2020 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows, retrieved November 3, 2019 
  13. ↑ Prize Winners Announced, European Mathematical Society, May 8, 2020, https://euro-math-soc.eu/news/20/05/8/prize-winners-announced 
  14. ↑ Winners of the 2023 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences, Mathematics and Fundamental Physics Announced, Breakthrough Prize, September 22, 2022, https://breakthroughprize.org/News/73, retrieved December 26, 2022 
  15. ↑ "Ana Caraiani", Members (Academia Europaea), https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Caraiani_Ana, retrieved 2024-11-09 



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