NSF Fellow Profile: Eric Maskin
Posted by John Hunter | Under NSF Fellows Thursday Mar 13, 2008
Nobel Laureate Eric Maskin was an NSF Graduate Fellow from 1972 to 1975. During this time, he was completing his master’s and PhD degrees in mathematics at Harvard University…
Maskin is perhaps best known for his work in mechanism design theory. His pioneering work in this field led to being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007. He shared the prize with Leonid Hurwicz of the University of Minnesota and Roger Myerson of the University of Chicago.
Since 2000, Dr. Maskin has been the Albert O. Hirschman professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Before his current position, he was employed as Louis Berkman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and as a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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