David Jerison

David Saul Jerison is an American mathematician specializing in partial differential equations and Fourier analysis. He is currently a professor of mathematics and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education and career The son of mathematician Meyer Jerison and Miriam Schwartz, Jerison did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University and received a bachelor's degree in 1975. He then received his Ph.D. in 1980 from Princeton University advised by Elias M. Stein. After postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, he joined MIT in 1981.

Awards and honors In 1985, he received an A.P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and a Presidential Young Investigator Award. In 1994, Jerison was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich. In 1999, he was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He became a MacVicar Fellow in 2004. In 2012, he received, jointly with John M. Lee, the Stefan Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society.