Fields Medals are awarded to recognise outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement.
It takes place every 4 years, on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians, and the laureates must be younger 40 years old. The prize money amounts to CA$15,000.
ERC grantees Fields Medal laurates
Hugo Duminil-Copin - Fields Medal 2022
He won the Fields Medal for solving longstanding problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions in statistical physics, especially in dimensions three and four.
- Read bio Hugo Duminil-Copin
Hugo Duminil-Copin, born 26 August 1985, is a French mathematician specialising in probability theory and percolation models. In 2013, after his postdoctorate, Duminil-Copin was appointed assistant professor, then full professor in 2014 at the University of Geneva. In 2016, he became permanent professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. Since 2019, he has been member of the Academia Europaea. Duminil-Copin was awarded the 2017 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for his work on Ising type models.
James Alexander Maynard - Fields Medal 2022
He won the Fields Medal for contributions to analytic number theory, which have led to major advances in the understanding of the structure of prime numbers and in Diophantine approximation.
- Read bio James Alexander Maynard
James Alexander Maynard, born 10 June 1987, is an English mathematician working in analytic number theory and in particular the theory of prime numbers. Maynard obtained his D.Phil. from University of Oxford at Balliol College in 2013 under the supervision of Roger Heath-Brown. He then became a Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2017, he was appointed Research Professor at Oxford. Maynard is a fellowof St John's College, Oxford. Maynard was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2023.
Alessio Figalli - Fields Medal 2018
He won the Fields Medal for his contributions to the theory of optimal transport, and its application to partial differential equations, metric geometry, and probability.
- Read bio Alessio Figalli
Alessio Figalli, born 2 April 1984, is an Italian mathematician working primarily on calculus of variations and partial differential equations. Figalli earned his doctorate in 2007 and in 2007 he was appointed Chargé de recherche at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. In 2009 he moved to the University of Texas at Austin as an associate professor. He became full professor in 2011, and R. L. Moore Chair holder in 2013. Since 2016, he is a chaired professor at ETH Zürich. In 2018 he received the Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Université Côte d'Azur and in 2019 he received the Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
Artur Avila Cordeiro De Melo - Fields Medal 2014
He won the Fields Medal for his work on dynamical systems and probability, and on stochastic analysis.
- Read bio Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo
Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo, born 29 June 1979, is a Brazilian - French mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. At the age of 19, Avila began writing his doctoral thesis on the theory of dynamical systems. In 2001 he finished it and received his PhD from Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA). That same year he moved abroad to France to do postdoctoral research. Since 2003 he has worked as a researcher for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France, later becoming a research director in 2008. He has been a professor at the University of Zurich since September 2018. In April 2019 he was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Avila is a member of World Minds.
Martin Hairer - Fields Medal 2014
He won the Fields Medal for his work on dynamical systems and probability, and on stochastic analysis.
- Read bio Martin Hairer
Martin Hairer, born 14 November 1975, is an Austrian-British mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations. He obtained his PhD in Physics under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Eckmanna at University of Geneva in November 2001. He is Professor of Mathematics at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and at Imperial College London. He previously held appointments at the University of Warwick and the Courant Institute of New York University.
Stanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov - Fields Medal 2010
He won the Fields medal for his work on the mathematical foundations of statistical physics, particularly finite lattice models.
- Read bio Stanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov
Stanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov, born 3 September 1970, is a Russian mathematician focusing on complex analysis, dynamical systems and probability theory. Smirnov's Ph.D. was conducted at Caltech under advisor Nikolai Makarov. In 1998 he was employed as part of the faculty at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, after which he took up his second position as a professor in the Analysis, Mathematical Physics and Probability group at the University of Geneva in 2003 where he is currently working.
