Jonathan David Farley is in the Department of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

He has formerly been a Science Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and a visiting associate professor at MIT. Seed Magazine named him one of “15 people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005.” In 2004, Farley won the Harvard Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award, a medal presented on behalf of the president of Harvard University for “outstanding achievements and contributions in the field of mathematics.” He was one of only four Americans to win a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award to the United Kingdom in 2001-2002. In 2005, he published a solution to a mathematics problem posed by MIT Professor Richard Stanley that had remained unsolved since 1981. He is the co-founder of Phoenix Mathematics, Inc., a company that develops mathematical approaches to homeland security.

Farley earned his doctorate from Oxford in 1995. In 1994, he won Oxford University’s Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson University Prize, Oxford’s highest mathematics awards. He graduated second in his class from Harvard University in 1991 (summa cum laude). 

• Kurt Gödel: What is Truth? The Strange Story of the Man Who Walked with Einstein (June 29, 2006)
• Terror and Beauty - The European Institute for Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism (September 20, 2005)