Maxim Kontsevich#
Membership Number: | 2041 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | MATHEMATICS |
Elected: | 2000 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Homepage(s): | http://www.ihes.fr/~maxim/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1997 Chair holder at Rutgers University, one month per year
- Since 1995 Permanent professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
- 1993-1995 Professor at the University of California at Berkeley
- 1993-1994 Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, visitor
- 1992-1993 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, visitor
- 1991-1992 Harvard University, USA, visitor
Fields of Scholarship
- "String theory"
- Quantum field theory
Honours and Awards
- Otto Hahn Medal, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 1992
- Prix de la Mairie de Paris, Premier Congrès Européen de Mathématiques, 1992
- Henri Poincaré Prize, 1997
- Prize of the International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Brisbane, 1997
- Fields Medal, IMU, ICM Berlin, 1998
- Crafoord Prize, 2008
- Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences, 2012
- Fundamental Physics Prize, 2012
- Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, 2014
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Member of the Institut de France