Ana Caraiani

Ana Caraiani (born 1984) 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 and studied at Mihai Viteazul High School.

After graduating high school in 2003, she pursued her studies in the United States. 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. Caraiani graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in 2007, with an undergraduate thesis on Galois representations supervised by Andrew Wiles.

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. In 2019, she became a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader at Imperial College London. She was also Hausdorff Chair at University of Bonn in 2022-2023.

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

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 -adic Langlands program". She is one of the 2020 winners of the EMS Prize. In September 2022 she was awarded the 2023 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize. She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2024. In 2025 she was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics.