James Maynard#
| Membership Number: | 5245 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/james.maynard |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5782-7082 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Professor of Number Theory, University of Oxford
- Fall 2017 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- Spring 2017 Research Member, MSRI, Berkeley
- 2015 - 2018 Clay Research Fellowship, Clay Mathematics Institute
- 2013 - 2017 Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, Oxford
- 2013 - 2014 CRM-ISM Post-doctoral Fellow, Universite de Montreal
Fields of Scholarship
- Analytic number theory
- Prime numbers
- Sieve methods
Honours and Awards
- 2022 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.»
- 2020 Cole Prize in Number Theory, American Mathematical Society
- 2020 - 2025 ERC Starting Grant (e1.5m)
- 2019 Compositio Prize, Foundation Compositio Mathematica
- 2018 ICM Invited Speaker, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2017 Wolfson Merit Award, Royal Society
- 2016 EMS Prize, European Mathematical Society
- 2016 Erdos $10 000 Problem Prize (joint with K. Ford, B. Green, S. Konyagin, and T. Tao)
- 2015 - 2018 Clay Research Fellowship, Clay Mathematics Institute
- 2015 Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society
- 2014 Ramanujan Prize, SASTRA University
