Jill Pipher Joins Simons Foundation Board of Trustees

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that mathematician Jill Pipher has joined its board of trustees.

Pipher is the Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, where she served as vice president for research from 2017 to 2024. She directed the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics from its founding in 2010 to 2016. Pipher previously served on the scientific advisory board for the Simons Foundation’s Mathematics & Physical Sciences division. From 2019 to 2021, she served as president of the American Mathematical Society.

Pipher’s research focuses on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and lattice-based cryptography. She obtained her B.A. in mathematics from UCLA in 1979 and her Ph.D. in mathematics from UCLA in 1985.

Pipher is an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society, served as president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2011 to 2013, and was a National Women’s History Month 2013 honoree. In 2015, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2019, she was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She was elected to the National Academy of Inventors in 2022.

Pipher joins fellow Simons Foundation trustees Cori Bargmann, a neurobiologist and geneticist; physician-scientist Emery Brown; mathematician and physicist Ingrid Daubechies; mathematician David Eisenbud; investor and business leader Bill Ford; organizational advisor and investment professional Andrew Golden; physicist Peter Littlewood; computer scientist William H. Press; molecular biologist and vice chair Shirley M. Tilghman; and co-founder and chair Marilyn H. Simons.