Elon Lindenstrauss

Elon Lindenstrauss (born August 1, 1970, Jerusalem) is an Israeli mathematician and winner of the 2010 Fields Medal, awarded for his work in ergodic theory and dynamical systems, especially measure rigidity for actions of higher-rank diagonalizable groups. He represented Israel at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1988 as a schoolboy, earned BSc, MSc and PhD degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD 1999 under Benjamin Weiss), and has held posts at Stanford, NYU's Courant Institute, Princeton University, and the Hebrew University, where he was the Alice Kusiel and Kurt Vorreuter University Chair and chaired the Einstein Institute of Mathematics (2016-2018). In 2024 he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as permanent faculty in the School of Mathematics. His honors also include the Fermat Prize, Erdos Prize, EMS Prize, Salem Prize and Blumenthal Award, and he is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Academia Europaea.

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• Won the 2010 Fields Medal for work in ergodic theory and dynamical systems, cited by the IMU for measure-rigidity results on the action of higher-rank Cartan subgroups.
• Moved to a permanent faculty post at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in 2024 after a long career at Hebrew University, where he held the Alice Kusiel and Kurt Vorreuter University Chair.Jul 1, 2024
• Represented Israel at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1988, the identification anchor tying this mathematician to the task subject; he went on to win the Field Medal.
• Public office email/phone at Hebrew University are [contact omitted] and [private detail omitted]; his CV also lists [contact omitted].
• Fields Medal citation and the WHO's-important recognition came when he was ~40, an unusually late medal age for the prize, reflecting that his measure-rigidity program (with Einsiedler) matured over a decade rather than as a single early result.
• PhD advisor was Benjamin Weiss at Hebrew University (1999 thesis 'Entropy Properties of Dynamical Systems'), placing him in the Israeli ergodic-theory lineage.
• Publishes a downloadable publication list and maintains a dedicated ERC HomDyn project page, indicating he leads a European Research Council-funded program on homogeneous dynamics.
• IAS hired him in 2024 alongside Irit Dinur (theoretical CS) and Aaron Naber (geometry) as part of a deliberate build-out of pure mathematics and CS faculty, placing him in a cohort that signals IAS's expansion beyond its traditional profile.Jul 1, 2024
• Career before Princeton/HUJI included a Szego Assistant Professorship at Stanford (2001-2003), a Clay Mathematics Institute Long Term Prize Fellowship (2003-2005), and a visiting membership at NYU's Courant Institute.
• Elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and to the Academia Europaea, both in 2012; also holds the Fermat Prize (2010) and the Erdős Prize (2009).
• Runs the ERC-funded HomDyn project on homogeneous dynamics, indicating ongoing European grant funding even after the move to a US institution.