Career
Woit graduated in 1979 from Harvard University with bachelor's and master's degrees in physics. He obtained his PhD in particle theory from Princeton University in 1985, followed by postdoctoral work in theoretical physics at State University of New York at Stony Brook and mathematics at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley. He spent four years as an assistant professor at Columbia and now holds a permanent position as Departmental Computer Administrator and Senior Lecturer in Discipline in the mathematics department.
Woit is a U.S. citizen but has a Latvian passport. His father was born in Riga and his parents became exiled at the beginning of the Soviet occupation of Latvia.
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