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
- 1992 Otto Hahn Medal, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 1992
- 1992 Prix de la Mairie de Paris, Premier Congrès Européen de Mathématiques, 1992
- 1997 Henri Poincaré Prize, 1997
- 1997 Prize of the International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Brisbane, 1997
- 1998 Fields Medal, IMU, ICM Berlin, 1998
- 2008 Crafoord Prize, 2008
- 2012 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
- Fundamental Physics Prize, 2012
- 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
- Member of the Institut de France
