Professor Dr Peter Scholze
- Section Mathematics
- Location Bonn, Germany
- Election year 2017
Research
Peter Scholze is a German mathematician. He specialises in arithmetic algebraic geometry. His concept of “perfectoid” spaces has helped solve several important and previously unsolved mathematical problems.
Peter Scholze is a German mathematician. His concept of “perfectoid” spaces has helped solve several important and previously unsolved mathematical problems.
Peter Scholze examines the overlap between arithmetic algebraic geometry and the theory of automorphic forms. When appointing him as Germany’s youngest W3 Professor in 2012, the University of Bonn did not require a habilitation degree, as he had already achieved remarkable breakthroughs in his master’s and doctoral theses.
Scholze’s work on Langlands conjectures gained particular attention. The Canadian mathematician Robert P. Langlands demonstrated that there must be connections between certain fields of mathematics. These connections should help to “translate” problems from one subsection of mathematics into another in order, ultimately, to solve them. This gave rise to numerous conjectures that became known as Langlands program. Peter Scholze has used geometric methods to prove some of these conjectures.
Peter Scholze is a German mathematician. His concept of “perfectoid” spaces has helped solve several important and previously unsolved mathematical problems.
Peter Scholze examines the overlap between arithmetic algebraic geometry and the theory of automorphic forms. When appointing him as Germany’s youngest W3 Professor in 2012, the University of Bonn did not require a habilitation degree, as he had already achieved remarkable breakthroughs in his master’s and doctoral theses.
Scholze’s work on Langlands conjectures gained particular attention. The Canadian mathematician Robert P. Langlands demonstrated that there must be connections between certain fields of mathematics. These connections should help to “translate” problems from one subsection of mathematics into another in order, ultimately, to solve them. This gave rise to numerous conjectures that became known as Langlands program. Peter Scholze has used geometric methods to prove some of these conjectures.
Career
- since 2018 Director, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
- since 2012 Professor of Mathematics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- 2011-2016 Fellow, Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge, USA
- 2012 Doctorate, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- 2007-2012 Degree in Mathematics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Projects
- since 2019 Participating Researcher, Cluster of Excellence (EXC) 2047 “Hausdorff Center for Mathematics”, German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany
- 2011-2019 Principal Investigator, Subproject “Galois Representations, Finite and Mixed Characteristics”, Transregio (TRR) 45, DFG, Germany
- 2011-2019 Principal Investigator, Subproject “Periods and Period Domains”, TRR 45, DFG, Germany
- 2011-2019 Principal Investigator, Subproject “Shimura Varieties”, TRR 45, DFG, Germany
Honours and Memberships
- 2022 Teaching Prize, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- 2022 Pius XI Medal, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican
- 2022 Foreign Member, Royal Society, UK
- 2019 Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany
- 2018 Honorary Member, London Mathematical Society, London, UK
- 2018 Fields Medal, International Mathematical Union (IMU)
- since 2018 Member, North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany
- since 2017 Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany
- since 2017 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany
- since 2017 Member, Academy of Science and Literature Mainz, Mainz, Germany
- 2016 Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizPrize, DFG, Germany
- 2016 EMS Prize, European Mathematical Society (EMS)
- 2016 Award, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany
- 2016 Fermat Prize, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
- 2015 Ostrowski Prize, Ostrowski Foundation, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- 2015 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra, American Mathematical Society, USA
- 2014 Clay Research Award, Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge, USA
- 2013 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA), Thanjavur, India
- 2012 Peccot Prize, Collège de France, Paris, France
- 2005 Gold Medal, International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)