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Our Faculty

At the Head of the Class

Princeton faculty are renowned leaders in their fields, extraordinary teachers and dedicated mentors.

Faculty Profiles

June Huh
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Mathematics. Awarded the 2022 Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, in recognition of his work in combinatorics.

Kristina Olson
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Psychology. A MacArthur Fellow and NSF emerging scientist award winner, Professor Kristina Olson is a scholar of how gender identity develops in children and how children think about social groups.

Eddie Glaude Jr.
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African American Studies and Religion. Author of "Democracy in Black," and scholar at the intersections of race, politics and religion.

Amaney Jamal
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Politics. Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, and explorer of Middle East politics, gender and Islam.

Janet Currie
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Economics and Public and International Affairs. Expert on health and wellbeing, and explorer of the building blocks of children's success.

Clifford Brangwynne
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Chemical and biological engineering. His research has changed how scientists understand cellular organization by linking biology with materials science and engineering,

Facts & Figures

  • 1,285

    Faculty, including full time, part time and visiting

  • 78%

    Tenured professorial faculty

  • 1,637

    Research funding awards

  • 5:1

    Student to faculty ratio

  • 31

    Faculty and staff Nobel Prize winners

Faculty in the News

Lithium string
Innovation

Revolutionizing lithium production on a string .

Lithium, vital to rechargeable batteries, has been vastly time- and land-intensive to extract from briny water. Now, Princeton researchers have found a solution — on a string.

Princeton expands its commitment to research and education in quantum science and engineering .

Andrew Houck and Ali Yazdani will co-direct the Princeton Quantum Initiative, and Nathalie de Leon is leading a new graduate program.

TIME Magazine's TIME100 artificial intelligence list honors six Princetonians .

The inaugural TIME100 AI list includes a Princeton professor, a current grad student and four alumni.

Michael Goldman, scholar of Shakespeare and Ibsen, and ‘uniquely gifted person,’ dies at 87 .

Goldman wrote "Kellerman's Anthem" from “Dirty Dancing” for his wife, who wrote the movie.

Faculty members at Princeton Research Day

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