Claire Voisin

Claire Voisin is a French mathematician, born on 4 March 1962, known for her work in algebraic geometry, particularly as it pertains to variations of Hodge structures and mirror symmetry, on which she has written several books on Hodge theory. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and in 2016 became the first female mathematician member of the Collège de France, where she held the first chair of algebraic geometry from 2015 to 2020. In 2002 she proved that the generalization of the Hodge conjecture for compact Kähler varieties is false. She won the European Mathematical Society Prize in 1992, the Sophie Germain Prize in 2003, the Clay Research Award in 2008 for her disproof of the Kodaira conjecture on deformations of compact Kähler manifolds, and the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in 2007 for, among other work, solving the generic case of Green's conjecture on the syzygies of the canonical embedding of an algebraic curve.