Jacob Tsimerman

Jacob Tsimerman
FRS
Jacob Tsimerman FRS
	Tsimerman in 2026
Born	April 26, 1988; Kazan, Tatar ASSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Education	University of Toronto (BSc); Princeton University (PhD);
Awards	Fields Medal (2026); Ostrowski Prize (2023); New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2022); Coxeter-James Prize (2019); Aisenstadt Prize (2017); Ribenboim Prize (2016); SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2015);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Workplaces	University of Toronto
Thesis	Towards an unconditional proof of the André-Oort Conjecture and surrounding problems (2011)
Doctoral advisor	Peter Sarnak

Jacob Tsimerman (born April 26, 1988) is a Soviet-born Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto specialising in arithmetic geometry, algebraic geometry, and related areas. He was awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in the year 2015 in recognition for his work on the André–Oort conjecture and for his work in both analytic number theory and algebraic geometry. In 2026, he received the Fields Medal for his work on O-minimality, Griffiths' conjecture, and the André–Oort conjecture.