Simion Filip is a mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago who works in dynamical systems and algebraic geometry.

Filip was born in Chișinău, where he grew up and attended the Moldo-Turkish "Orizont" Lyceum, graduating in 2005.

[3] He attended Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge where he received a master's degree with distinction in 2010.

[3] Filip received a five-year Clay Research Fellowship lasting from 2016 to 2021.

[7][8] Filip's research focuses on the interactions between dynamical systems and algebraic geometry.