Jeremy Quastel

Jeremy Daniel Quastel , is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, stochastic processes and partial differential equations. He currently University Professor at the University of Toronto, and previously served as department head from 2017 until 2021. .

Career Quastel grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He earned his PhD at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 1990; his advisor was S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. He was a postdoc at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, then a faculty member at the University of California, Davis for the next six years.

Awards, distinctions, and recognitions Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) John C. Polanyi Award (2025) Fellow of the Royal Society (2021) CMS Jeffery–Williams Prize (2019) CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (2018) Royal Society of Canada Fellow (2016) Killam Research Fellowship (2013) for his research of stochastic processes and partial differential equations used to describe natural processes of change and evolution invited speaker at the Current Developments in Mathematics (2011) invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (2010) Sloan Fellow (1996–98)

Family Jeremy Quastel is the grandson of biochemist Juda Hirsch Quastel.