DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Biography

Antonio (Tuca) Auffinger completed his PhD at New York University in 2011. He was an L.E. Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty of Northwestern in 2014.

 Auffinger’s research is on probability theory, more specifically sub-additive processes, spin glasses, gaussian fields and random matrices. He explores connections with partial differential equations and dynamical systems, mathematical physics and theoretical biology. A theme of his work is the complexity of disordered systems and universal aspects of their long-time behavior.

Auffinger received an NSF CAREER grant in 2014. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2022. In 2023 he was awarded a Simons Fellowship. His teaching was recognized by a 2019 Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award.