Peter Scholze

Peter Scholze
Peter Scholze
	Scholze in Berkeley, 2014
Born	11 December 1987; Dresden, East Germany
Alma mater	University of Bonn
Known for	Introduction of perfectoid spaces and diamonds; Prismatic cohomology; Condensed mathematics; Geometrization of the local Langlands conjectures;
Children	1
Awards	Prix and Cours Peccot (2012); SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2013); Clay Research Award (2014); Cole Prize (2015); Fermat Prize (2015); Ostrowski Prize (2015); EMS Prize (2016); Leibniz Prize (2016); Berlin-Brandenburg Academy Award (2016); Fields Medal (2018);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics; Arithmetic geometry; Algebraic geometry; Algebraic number theory;
Institutions	University of Bonn; Max Planck Institute for Mathematics; Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; University of California, Berkeley; Clay Mathematics Institute;
Thesis	Perfectoid Spaces (2011)
Doctoral advisor	Michael Rapoport

Peter Scholze (German pronunciation: [ˈpeːtɐ ˈʃɔltsə] ^ⓘ; born 11 December 1987) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. He has been a professor in the University of Bonn since 2012 and co-director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics since 2018. He has been called one of the leading mathematicians in the world. In 2018, he won the Fields Medal, an award regarded as the highest professional honor in mathematics.