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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

  • 1,315

    Faculty, including full time, part time and visiting

  • 78%

    Tenured professorial faculty

  • 1,740

    Research funding awards

  • 5:1

    Student to faculty ratio

  • 32

    Faculty and staff Nobel Prize winners

Faculty in the News

Professor Yibin Kang shows cancer cells on a monitor array to a postdoctoral fellow.
Innovation

The partnership that drives America’s leadership in medical discovery: How it works and what’s at stake .

With federal support, universities produce world-changing discoveries and the next generation of exquisitely well-trained researchers.

Anson Rabinbach, European historian and ‘luminous spirit,’ dies at 79 .

Rabinbach joined Princeton’s faculty in 1996 and transferred to emeritus status in 2019. He served as director of the Humanities Council’s Program in European Cultural Studies from 1998 to 2008.

Two professors, four alumni elected to National Academy of Engineering .

Six Princetonians have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering: Professor Philip John Holmes, Professor Lynn Loo, and alumni Marsha Anderson Bomar, Susan Brantley, Pei Cao and Marian Gindy.

Princeton geoscientists propose an unexpected new screening tool for cancer .

Xinning Zhang and Ashley Maloney discovered that a geology technique shows promise in detecting cancer-like cells. If their preliminary results bear out, they may have identified a new signature for cancer, which could mean earlier diagnosis and better outcomes.

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The Quantum Future: Meeting the Moment

Princeton’s quantum scientists and engineers are working to manipulate the strange behaviors of particles — mindbending realities like quantum entanglement and superposition — to advance knowledge and produce technologies in fields as far-ranging as medicine, weather forecasting, finance, astronomy and cryptography. Our expanded Quantum Initiative and new Ph.D. program carry forward a spirit of discovery on our campus that reaches back to Einstein.

 

Follow our latest breakthroughs and meet our Forward Thinkers