Maxim Kontsevich is a mathematician working in several areas of mathematics and mathematical physics. Born in 1964 in Khimki, Russia, he completed his undergraduate studies at Moscow State University (1980–1985), followed by work at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (1985–1990). He earned his Ph.D. from Bonn University in 1992 (thesis advisor Don Zagier) and served as a Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley from 1994 to 1995. Since 1995, he has been a Permanent Professor at the Institut des Hautes ´Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, France. he is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Miami. Maxim Kontsevich was awarded several prestigious prizes, including Prize of EMS in 1992, Henri Poincar´e Prize in 1997, Fields Medal in 1998, Crafoord Prize in 2008, Shaw Prize in 2012, Breakthrough Prozes in Fundamental Physics in 2012 and in Mathematics in 2014. He is a member of French Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea, foreign member of National Academy of Sciences and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and a honorary member of London Mathematical Society.
