Samson Lulievich Shatashvili (Georgian: სამსონ შათაშვილი; Russian: Самсон Лулиевич Шаташвили, born February 1960[1]) is a theoretical and mathematical physicist who has been working at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, since 2002.

He holds the Trinity College Dublin Chair of Natural Philosophy[2] and is the director of the Hamilton Mathematics Institute.

[5] Shatashvili received his PhD in 1984 at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Saint Petersburg under the supervision of Ludwig Faddeev (and Vladimir Korepin).

He is mostly known for his work with Ludwig Faddeev on quantum anomalies, with Anton Alekseev on geometric methods in two-dimensional conformal field theories, for his work on background independent open string field theory, with Cumrun Vafa on superstrings and manifolds of exceptional holonomy, with Anton Gerasimov on tachyon condensation, with Andrei Losev, Nikita Nekrasov and Greg Moore on instantons and supersymmetric gauge theories, as well as for his work with Nikita Nekrasov on quantum integrable systems.

In 2025, he won the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics for "clever use of various techniques in studying symmetry in quantum field theory".