Andrew Eben Strominger (/ˈstrɑːmɪndʒər/;[1] born 1955) is an American theoretical physicist who is the director of Harvard's Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature.

These include his work on Calabi–Yau compactification and topology change in string theory, and on the stringy origin of black hole entropy.

Prior to joining Harvard as a professor in 1997, he held a faculty position at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In recognition of his accomplishments, Strominger has been awarded numerous prizes, fellowships, and honorary professorships.

These include the Klein Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the 2008 Eisenbud Prize from the American Mathematical Society, the 2014 Dirac Medal from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, which he received for his contributions to the origin, development, and further understanding of string theory, and the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Cumrun Vafa and Joseph Polchinski.