Ron Peled

Ron Peled is a Full Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv University, currently on leave to serve as the Brin Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland starting summer 2024. During 2022–2024 he was a Member at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Education & Career:
While explicit degrees are not listed, his trajectory shows appointments at NYU (2009–2010), UC Berkeley and Tel Aviv University as a teaching assistant, followed by faculty positions culminating in full professorship.

Research Interests:
His work lies at the intersection of probability theory, statistical physics, and combinatorics. Key themes include:

• Disordered systems and random environments (random-field Ising, spin glasses)
• First-passage percolation and random metrics
• Random surfaces and height functions
• Loop models and critical phenomena
• Random matrices and band matrices
• Geometric probability and allocation problems

Publications & Impact:
With over 70 papers in top journals such as Annals of Mathematics, Annals of Probability, Inventiones Mathematicae, and Communications in Mathematical Physics, his recent work explores minimal surfaces in random environments, localization in random band matrices, and quantitative disorder effects in low-dimensional spin systems.

Grants & Awards:
Research has been continuously funded by:

• Israel Science Foundation (grants 1048/11, 861/15, 1971/19, 2340/23)
• ERC Starting Grant LocalOrder
• ERC Consolidator Grant Transitions
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Reintegration Grant SPTRF

Teaching & Mentoring:
Prof. Peled has taught a broad spectrum of courses at Tel Aviv University (Brownian motion, probability, percolation, random matrices, stochastic calculus) and NYU (combinatorics, discrete mathematics). He has supervised 13 post-doctoral fellows and 8 graduate students (PhD & MSc) to date.

Service & Outreach:
He co-organizes the Joint Israeli Probability Seminar and has organized numerous international workshops and conferences including at Oberwolfach, Technion, and Tel Aviv University.