Tristan Collins

Bio

Tristan Collins joined the mathematics faculty as Assistant Professor in September 2018, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023.  As of 2022, he has held the Class of 1948 Career Development Chair.

Collins earned his B.Sc at the University of British Columbia in 2009, after which he completed his Ph.D at Columbia University in 2014 under the direction of Duong H. Phong. Subsequently, he had a four year appointment as a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University. 

Collins’ research focuses on questions in complex geometry and nonlinear partial differential equations.  

Collins received the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship.  In 2021 he was recognized with the André Aisenstadt Prize in Mathematics, awarded to a young outstanding Canadian mathematician. In 2024 he was awarded a Frontiers of Science Award by the International Congress of Basic Science.