Mohammed Abouzaid

Mohammed Abouzaid (; born 1981) is a Moroccan mathematician working in symplectic topology. He is a professor at Stanford University. He obtained his PhD in 2007 at the University of Chicago under Paul Seidel's supervision.

Education and career Mohammed Abouzaid was born in 1981. In 2007, he received his PhD under the supervision of Paul Seidel from the University of Chicago with thesis Homological Mirror Symmetry for Toric Varieties. As a postdoctoral researcher, he was a Clay Mathematics Institute Research Fellow from 2007 to 2012, concurrently, he was also a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2012 to 2013, he was a visiting professor at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. From 2012 to 2023, he was an associate professor at Columbia University. Since 2023 he has been Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University.

Awards and honors Abouzaid was an invited speaker the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. In 2017, he won the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize "For distinguishing cotangent bundles of exotic spheres, constructing the wrapped Fukaya category with Paul Seidel, and other decisive contributions to symplectic topology and mirror symmetry." In 2018 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications