Prof. Maxim Kontsevich
Professor at Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France
Prof. Kontsevich has made numerous contributions to the fields of pure mathematics and theoretical physics. His work concentrates on geometric aspects of mathematical physics, most notably on knot theory, quantization, and mirror symmetry. He received the Fields Medal in 1998. He has also been awarded the Crafoord Prize in 2008, the Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Gesellschaft in 1992, Prix de la Mairie de Paris in 1992, the Henri Poincare Prize in 1997, and the Prize of the International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Brisbane in 1997. Kontsevich is a member of the Academia Europaea, and a member of the Institut de France.