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.

David 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 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 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 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.