Cumrun Vafa

Cumrun Vafa
Born (1960-08-01) 1 August 1960 (age 64)
NationalityIranian-American
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)
Princeton University (PhD)
Known forF-theory
Vafa–Witten theorem
Gopakumar–Vafa invariant
Mirror symmetry
Swampland
Weak gravity conjecture
AwardsDirac Medal (2008)
Eisenbud Prize (2008)
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2016)
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2017)
Mustafa Prize (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
InstitutionsHarvard University
Doctoral advisorEdward Witten
Doctoral studentsFreddy Cachazo
Daniel L. Jafferis
Andrew Neitzke
Eric Zaslow

Cumrun Vafa (Persian: کامران وفا, Persian pronunciation: [kɒːmˈrɒːn væˈfɒː]; born 1 August 1960) is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist and the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University.

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