College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) Advisory Board

David Spergel

President, Simons Foundation

David Spergel is president of the Simons Foundation. He is the Charles Young Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Princeton University and was the founding director of the Center of Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York. Spergel received his undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1982. After a year of study at Oxford University, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1985. After two years as a member at the Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the Princeton astrophysics faculty in 1987, where he was also associate faculty in the Departments of Physics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. In 2021, he assumed leadership of the Simons Foundation. Spergel is the author of over 400 papers.