Peter Scholze

Peter Scholze is a German mathematician, born in 1987 in Dresden, known for his work in arithmetic geometry. He grew up in Berlin, won three gold medals and one silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad as a student, and studied at the University of Bonn, where he completed his bachelor's degree in three semesters and his master's degree in two further semesters. He obtained his PhD in 2012 under the supervision of Michael Rapoport and was made a full professor at the University of Bonn the same year, becoming at the age of 24 the youngest full professor in Germany. He has been co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics since 2018. In 2018 he won the Fields Medal, an award regarded as the highest professional honor in mathematics.