The Department of Mathematics welcomes its new faculty member: Stefan Patrikis.
Stefan is originally from New Haven, Connecticut. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 2006 where he did a senior thesis under the direction of Richard Taylor on Galois representations. Stefan went to Princeton University after that where he finished a PhD in 2012 under the direction of professor Andrew Wiles on Galois representations and automorphic forms.
After Princeton, Stefan spent a year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, followed by a year at Harvard as an NSF postdoc, and then a year at MIT as Moore Instructor. He was then appointed as an assistant professor and the John E. and Marva M. Warnock Chair for Faculty Development in Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah in 2015, receiving tenure in 2019.
In addition, Stefan is an alum of the Ross Mathematics Program, one of the national summer schools in mathematics for highly gifted high school students, hosted at Ohio State since 1964 until recently.
Stefan joined our department in autumn 2020 as a tenured faculty working in number theory and arithmetic geometry with strong connections to our algebraic geometry group. His research interests are within the Langlands program, which guides deep conjectures relating number theory and geometry. Stefan is specifically interested in automorphic forms, Galois representations, and motives, and the relationships between them. He is also the recipient of an NSF CAREER grant in 2018 for his research.
