Almut Burchard, University of Toronto

Almut Burchard is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, with an extensive body of research in several different areas. These include geometric problems in functional analysis, PDE and probability; symmetrization, sharp inequalities, non-local functionals; and network calculus. With a PhD from Georgia Tech, Professor Burchard  taught at Princeton University and the University of Virginia  before coming to Toronto in 2005. 

Prof. Burchard has been an energetic supporter of the Fields Institute, most recently in enabling the Thematic Program in Mathematical Hydrodynamics to move online in the fall of 2020. Her participation as a mentor in the Fields Undergraduate Research Program has been appreciated by many generations of student participants.

Andrew Granville, Université de Montréal

Andrew Granville is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UdeM. He was recently awarded the 2021 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize for his outstanding achievements in the mathematical sciences. Prof. Granville has played a significant leadership role in Canadian mathematics since obtaining his PhD from Queens University in 1987. In 2002, he joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Université de Montréal as a senior Canada Research Chair. His presence has had a galvanizing effect on the Montreal mathematics community, in particular. The list of graduate students and postdocs he has trained reads like a who’s who amongst the younger generation of stellar analytic number theorists, including several prominent female mathematicians. His broad range of accomplishments include tackling questions in arithmetic geometry, Diophantine approximation, algorithmic and cryptographic aspects, and his deep contributions to analytic number theory. A charismatic communicator, he is widely sought after as a speaker for diverse audiences. Professor Granville has more than 160 published papers under his belt, many of which appear in the field’s top journals (and have resulted in a very large belt collection). He has also written numerous textbooks and lecture notes. The range of his writing talent extends to a theatrical play and a widely acclaimed graphic novel that explores mathematical themes.

Vivek Goel, University of Toronto, President Designate University of Waterloo

Professor Goel is a distinguished scholar with an extensive background in teaching, research and university administration. He obtained his medical degree from McGill University and completed post-graduate medical training in Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Goel obtained an MSc in Community Health from U of T and an MS in Biostatistics from Harvard University School of Public Health. His research has focused on health services evaluation and the promotion of the use of research evidence in health decision-making. He has extensive experience in governance and serves on the boards of the Vector Institute, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (Vice-Chair) and the Post Promise. He is a member of the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, Chair of the Expert Advisory Group on the development of a Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy, and Scientific Advisor for CanCOVID, the national research platform for COVID-19 research. Professor Goel is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a Member of the Order of Canada.

As the Vice President Research & Innovation of the University of Toronto, Prof. Goel was a champion of the Fields institute with the University. 

Ian Hambleton, McMaster University

Prof. Hambleton received his doctorate from Yale University in 1973, and was an L. E. Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago before joining McMaster University, where he has served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for three terms, was active in university affairs as President of the McMaster Faculty Association, and was several times elected to the Senate and Board of Governors. He is a prominent mathematician with more than 85 published articles in leading international journals, whose research in geometry and topology connects to a broad range of mathematics. His distinguished record of scholarship has been recognized by a high level of NSERC funding for over 40 years, supporting an extensive program of graduate and postdoctoral training. He was a Member of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for two years, and a Visiting Professor for three years at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, in addition to numerous other visiting positions at major mathematical centres. Since 2000 he has held the Dr. F. Ronald Britton Professorship of Mathematics at McMaster University. 

Prof. Hambleton is a past Director of the Fields Institute. 

George Papanicolau, Stanford University

George Papanicolau is the Robert Grimmett Professor in Mathematics at Stanford University. Prof. Papanicolau a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998 and the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in 2003. He was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship (1974), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1983), the von Neumann Lectureship from SIAM (2006), the William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics[9] (2010), the Gibbs Lectureship of the AMS (2011), and the Lagrange Prize from ICIAM (2019). He received an Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Athens in 1987 and a Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Paris VII in 2011.

Prof. Papanicolau served on the Fields Institute Scientific Advisory Panel. 

Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Gigliola Staffilani is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Mathematics since 2007, and was Associate Department Head from July 2013 to 2015. At MIT Professor Staffilani served as co-chair of the Graduate Student Committee in Pure Mathematics from 2009-2013, and is the Faculty Diversity Officer since 2015. In 2013 she was elected member of the Massachusetts Academy of Science and a fellow of the AMS, and in 2014 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017 she received a Guggenheim fellowship and a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics. As a member of the Department's edX group (with David Jerison, Jennifer French and Karene Chu), she received the inaugural MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs by the MIT Office of Digital. They were honored for significant contributions to MITx MOOC coursework offered on edX.org during the 2016 calendar year. In 2018, she received the Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, by the MIT Presidential Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons. Prof. Staffilani was selected for the 2020 Committed to Caring (C2C) award by the Office of Graduate Education. In 2021, Professor Staffilani was elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Prof. Staffilani served on the Fields institute Scientific Advisory Panel.