AcademicsAlumni Hottest StoriesAwards and HonorsCollege of Arts & SciencesFacultyFaculty/StaffFaculty/Student SpotlightsMedicine and ResearchResearchStony Brook Matters Professors Chen and Essig Named SBU’s First Simons Investigators Xiuxiong Chen, Professor of Mathematics, and Rouven Essig, Associate Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University, have been named 2019 Simons Investigators, becoming the first faculty members at the University to... July 18, 20194 min read