Jonathan David Farley is currently a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in the Institute for Algebra. Farley has been a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a Science Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University, and a Visiting Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He is the 2004 recipient of the Harvard Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award, a medal presented on behalf of the president of Harvard University in recognition of “outstanding achievements and contributions in the field of mathematics.” The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts (home to both Harvard University and MIT) officially declared March 19, 2004 to be “Dr. Jonathan David Farley Day.” In 2005, he published the solution to a mathematics problem posed by MIT professor Richard Stanley that had remained unsolved since 1981. Farley is co-founder of Phoenix Mathematics, Inc., a company that develops mathematical approaches to homeland security. Seed Magazine named Dr. Farley one of “15 people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005.”

Farley obtained his doctorate in mathematics from Oxford University in 1995, after winning Oxford’s highest mathematics awards, the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson University Prize, in 1994. Farley graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1991 with the second-highest grade point average in his graduating class.

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