Rahul Pandharipande (born 1969[citation needed]) is a Portuguese mathematician of Indian descent who is currently a professor of mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH) working in algebraic geometry.

[1][2] His father Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande was a renowned theoretical physicist who worked in the area of nuclear physics.

[3] His thesis advisor at Harvard was Joe Harris.

After teaching at the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty as Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University in 2002.

In 2022, he was awarded an honorary degree - Doctor of Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.