Jake McNamara

Jake McNamara is a theoretical physicist who works at the intersection of modern mathematics and quantum gravity. He completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard University, working under the supervision of Professor Cumrun Vafa as a graduate student within the broader research community of the Swampland Program. After completing his Ph.D. in 2022, he joined the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech as a Dubridge Fellow for three years. In Fall 2025, he became a Research Assistant Professor at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University. His recent research has focused on new notions of symmetry and their application to quantum gravity, holography, and string theory.