DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Ben Weinkove received his PhD at Columbia University in 2004. Before arriving at Northwestern in 2013, he was a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University, a Royal Society Research Assistant at Imperial College London and a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego.

Weinkove served as Chair of the Mathematics Department from 2021 to 2024.  In 2024 he was named the Madan Lal Puri Professor of Mathematics.

Weinkove's research work is on elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, geometric analysis and complex geometry.  He received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2008 and was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2017.