Senior Faculty Research Interests
| Denis Auroux | Herchel Smith Professor of Mathematics | Symplectic geometry |
| Laura DeMarco | Professor of Mathematics | Dynamical systems, arithmetic geometry, and complex analysis |
| Noam D. Elkies | Professor of Mathematics | Number theory, computation, classical algebraic geometry, music |
| Dan Freed | Shiing-Shen Chern Professor of Mathematics, Director of the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (CMSA) | Geometry, topology, and interactions with theoretical physics |
| Robin Gottlieb | Professor in the Teaching of Mathematics | |
| Joseph Harris | Higgins Professor of Mathematics | Algebraic geometry |
| Michael J. Hopkins | George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics | Algebraic topology |
| Mark Kisin | Perkins Professor of Mathematics | Number theory and arithmetic geometry |
| Peter Kronheimer | William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics | Topology, differential and algebraic geometry, and their applications |
| Eric Maskin | Adams University Professor at Harvard | Game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, political economy |
| Barry Mazur | Gerhard Gade University Professor | Number theory, automorphic forms and related issues in algebraic geometry |
| Curtis T. McMullen | Maria Moors Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences | Riemann surfaces, complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry |
| Martin Nowak | Professor of Mathematics and Biology | Mathematical biology, evolutionary dynamics, infectious diseases, cancer genetics, game theory, language |
| Mihnea Popa | Professor of Mathematics | Algebraic geometry |
| Yum-Tong Siu | William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics | Several complex variables |
| Clifford Taubes | William Petschek Professor of Mathematics | Nonlinear partial differential equations and applications to topology, geometry, and mathematical physics |
| Lauren Williams | Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics | Algebraic and geometric combinatorics |
| Melanie Matchett Wood | William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics | Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry |
| Hugh Woodin | Professor of Philosophy and of Mathematics | Set theory, determinacy, and strong axioms of infinity |
| Horng-Tzer Yau | Merton Professor of Mathematics | Probability theory, quantum dynamics, differential equations, and nonequilibrium physics |
Junior and visiting faculty areas of interest provide an additional resource for graduate students. In addition, the department hosts a number of weekly seminars, and students have access to resources and seminars at the Harvard University Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (CMSA).