Igor Rodnianski (born 1972, Ukraine) is an American mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works in partial differential equations, mathematical physics, and general relativity.
Igor Rodnianski recently joined the MIT faculty from Princeton as Professor of Mathematics in 2011. At Princeton he was the Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics, and in 2011 the Henry Burchard Fine Professor of Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. under Lev Kapitanski at Kansas State University in 1999, and completed his B.Sc and M.Sc in physics at St. Petersburg University.
Igor Rodnianski is a leader in hyperbolic partial differential equations related to a broad range of fundamental problems in mathematical physics and general relativity. With extensive backgrounds in physics, geometry, and analysis, he has developed new methods of geometric and harmonic analysis. In 2002 he received the Long-Term Prize fellowship of the Clay Mathematics Institute, and in 2010 the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Kansas State University.[1] He received the 2011 Fermat Prize for Mathematical Research, "for fundamental contributions to the study of equations of general relativity and the propagation of light in curved space-times (with M. Dafermos, S. Klainerman, H. Lindblad)."[2]