Maksym Radziwill

Maksym Radziwill is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at Northwestern University, where he joined in Fall 2023. He earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics with first-class honors from McGill University in 2009, with a thesis on large deviations of additive functions advised by Andrew Granville, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford University in 2013, with a thesis on the zero distribution and size of the Riemann zeta-function advised by Kannan Soundararajan. Following his doctorate, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 2013 to 2014, Hill Assistant Professor at Rutgers University from 2014 to 2016, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Number Theory at McGill University from 2016, Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology from 2018 to 2022, and Professor and University Chair in Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin from 2022 to 2023.

Radziwill works in analytic number theory, with a focus on multiplicative number theory, including the factorization of integers and the distribution of integers with special multiplicative properties such as primes. His research interests encompass the analytic theory of the Riemann zeta-function and L-functions, automorphic forms, and their interplay with spectral theory of hyperbolic manifolds, probability theory, and dynamics, particularly the emergence of randomness from deterministic structures. He has made significant progress on the Chowla conjecture and other problems in the field. Notable publications include 'Multiplicative functions in short intervals' (Annals of Mathematics, 2016, with Kaisa Matomäki) and 'Higher Uniformity of Bounded Multiplicative Functions in Short Intervals on Average' (with Kaisa Matomäki, Terence Tao, Joni Teravainen, and Tamar Ziegler). His contributions have earned him the 2016 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (with Kaisa Matomäki), 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 2018 Coxeter-James Prize, 2018 Ribenboim Prize, 2018 Stefan Banach Prize, invitation to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018, 2019 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (with Kaisa Matomäki), 2023 American Mathematical Society Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory (with Kaisa Matomäki, James Newton, and Jack Thorne), and 2025 Alexanderson Award. Radziwill's work has profoundly influenced analytic number theory, mentoring emerging researchers such as Alexander Dunn, recipient of the 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for joint work on the Kummer-Patterson conjecture.