Elon Lindenstrauss (born August 1, 1970) is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal.Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University. In 2009, he was appointed to Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the Hebrew University.He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010 for his results on measure rigidity in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory.