Oberwolfach Prize

The Oberwolfach Prize is financed by the Oberwolfach Foundation and awarded in cooperation with the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach to early-career mathematicians. The prize is awarded approximately every three years for excellent achievements in changing fields of mathematics. The Scientific Committee of the Gesellschaft für mathematische Forschung e.V. is involved in selecting the prize winners from the nominations. The Oberwolfach Prize comes with an award of Euro 10,000.

Oberwolfach Prize Winners 1991 – 2025

Portrait of Yu Deng

2025

Yu Deng (Chicago)

Analysis and Applied Mathematics

Presentation of Yu Deng (PDF)

Video recording: Yu Deng on "The 4D Anderson Model"

Portrait of Vesselin Dimitrov

2022

Vesselin Dimitrov (Princeton)

Algebra and Number Theory

Presentation of Vesselin Dimitrov (PDF)

Video recording: Vesselin Dimitrov on "The Square Root of a Motive"

Portrait of Oskar Randal-Williams

2019

Oscar Randal-Williams (Cambridge)

Geometry and Topology

Presentation of Oscar Randal-Williams (PDF)

Jacob Fox

2016

Jacob Fox (Stanford)

Discrete Mathematics

Presentation of Jacob Fox

Hugo Duminil-Copin

2013

Hugo Duminil-Copin (Genève)

Stochastics and Statistics

Presentation of H. Duminil-Copin (PDF)

Presentation of the certificate to Nicola Gigli and László Székelyhidi

2010

Nicola Gigli (Nice)
László Székelyhidi (Bonn)

Analysis and Applied Mathematics

Presentation of N. Gigli (PDF)
Presentation of L. Szekelyhidi (PDF)

Ngô Bao Châu

2007

Ngô Bao Châu (Orsay)

Algebra and Number Theory

Presentation of Ngô Bao Châu (PDF)

Paul Biran infront of Boy surface

2003

Paul Biran (Tel Aviv)

Geometry and Topology

Presentation of P. Biran (PDF)

Luca Trevisan

2000

Luca Trevisan (Berkeley)

Discrete Mathematics

Alice Guionnet

1998

Alice Guionnet (Paris)

Stochastics

Gero Friesecke

Stefan Sauter

1996

Gero Friesecke (Oxford)
Stefan Sauter (Zürich)

Analysis and Applied Mathematics

Jörg Brüdern

1993

Jörg Brüdern (Stuttgart)
Jens Franke (Bonn)

Number Theory and Algebra

1991

Peter Kronheimer (Oxford)

Topology and Geometry