Cumrun Vafa

Cumrun Vafa
Born	(1960-08-01) 1 August 1960 (age 63) Tehran,[1] Iran
Nationality	Iranian-American
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Princeton University (PhD)
Known for	F-theory Vafa–Witten theorem Gopakumar–Vafa invariant Mirror symmetry Swampland Weak gravity conjecture
Awards	Dirac Medal (2008) Eisenbud Prize (2008) Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2016) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2017) Mustafa Prize (2021)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical Physics
Institutions	Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Edward Witten
Doctoral students	Freddy Cachazo Andrew Neitzke Eric Zaslow

Cumrun Vafa (Persian: کامران وفا, Persian pronunciation: [kɒːmˈrɒːn væˈfɒː]; born 1 August 1960) is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist and the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University.