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Lillian Beatrix Pierce

Lillian Beatrix Pierce

Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics
pierce@math.duke.edu
Duke Box 90320, Room 117 Physics Building, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Box 90320 120 Science Drive,, Durham, NC 27708

Awards & Honors

AWM Fellow

National Association for Women in Mathematics · 2025 More about this award

Simons Fellowship

Other Simons Foundation · 2024

Guggenheim Fellowship

National John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation · 2023 More about this award

Fellow of the AMS

National AMS · 2021

PECASE

National Office of the President · 2019

Joan and Joseph Birman Fellow

National AMS · 2019

AWM Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis

National AWM · 2018

Sloan Research Fellowship

National Sloan Foundation · 2018

von Neumann Fellow

University Institute for Advanced Study · 2017

Member, School of Mathematics

National Institute for Advanced Study · 2009

Rhodes Scholar

National Rhodes Trust · 2002

In the News

Published March 25, 2026
Duke Honors 38 Distinguished Professors in 2026
Published April 14, 2023
Four Trinity Faculty, Three Alums Win Guggenheim Fellowships
Published April 1, 2022
In Math and Music, Building Mental Landscapes With Lillian Pierce
Published July 8, 2019
White House Honors Four Faculty for Early Career Research Accomplishments
Published March 6, 2019
Duke Mathematician Lillian Pierce Awarded Birman Fellowship
Published February 16, 2018
Duke Mathematician Lillian Pierce Wins 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship
Published June 5, 2017
Pierce Honored for Work in Harmonic Analysis, Analytic Number Theory
Published September 26, 2014
Lillian Pierce: A Head for Pure Mathematics