Caucher Birkar

Caucher Birkar FRS (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Persian: فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is an Iranian Kurdish mathematician and a professor at Tsinghua University and University of Cambridge.

During 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, he was awarded a Fields Medal, although it was stolen few minutes after he got it.

He was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea in 2019.

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