Jacob Lurie

Jacob Lurie
Lurie in 2005
Born (1977-12-07) December 7, 1977
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma materHarvard University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
AwardsMorgan Prize (2000)
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014)
MacArthur Fellowship (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsAlgebraic geometry
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Institute for Advanced Study
ThesisDerived algebraic geometry (2004)
Doctoral advisor
Michael J. Hopkins
Doctoral students
Dustin Clausen

Jacob Alexander Lurie (born December 7, 1977) is an American mathematician who is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 2014, Lurie received a MacArthur Fellowship. Lurie's research interests are algebraic geometry, topology, and homotopy theory.