David Jerison


David Saul Jerison is an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an expert in partial differential equations and Fourier analysis.
Jerison did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1975, and then went on to graduate studies at Princeton University. He earned a doctorate in 1980, with Elias M. Stein as his advisor, and after postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, he came to MIT in 1981.

Awards and honors

In 1999, Jerison was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He became a MacVicar Fellow in 2004. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2012 he received, jointly with John M. Lee, the Stefan Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society.