Caucher Birkar
Caucher Birkar FRS (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار, romanized: Koçer Bîrkar, lit. 'migrant mathematician'; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Persian: فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is an Iranian Kurdish mathematician and a professor at Tsinghua University and at the University of Cambridge.
Caucher Birkar کۆچەر بیرکار | |
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| Born | Fereydoun Derakhshani 1978 (age 45–46) Marivan County, Iran |
| Citizenship | Iran, Britain – dual citizenship |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran (BSc) University of Nottingham (PhD) |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Leverhulme Prize (2010) Moore Prize (2016) Fields Medal (2018) |
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| Institutions | Tsinghua University University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Topics in Modern Algebraic Geometry (2004) |
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| Website | www |
Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry. In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and in 2016, shared the AMS Moore Prize for the article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type". He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018, "for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model program". In his office at the University, Birkar has two photographs of Alexander Grothendieck, his favorite mathematician, who like Birkar, was a refugee and Fields medalist.