Jalal Shatah Selected as Simons Senior Fellow

July 21, 2026

The Simons Foundation announced this week that Jalal Shatah, Silver Professor of Mathematics, has been selected to join the Simons Society of Fellows as a Senior Fellow.

Formed in 2014, the society comprises Senior Fellows, generally distinguished researchers with years of service as researchers and educators, and Junior Fellows, outstanding early-career scientists and mathematicians, encouraging intellectual interactions across disciplines and research centers in the New York City area. Fourteen Junior Fellows were invited to join this year. NYU's Jalal Shatah and Claude Desplan, Silver Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, were named Senior Fellows.

Professor Shatah recently received the Kuwait Prize for Mathematical Sciences; he is currently serving as the Chair of the Organizing Committee at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, which will begin this week in Philadelphia.