Caucher Birkar Born 1978 (age 39–40) Marivan, Iran Residence Cambridge, United Kingdom Nationality Kurd[1] Alma mater University of Tehran University of Nottingham Known for flips, minimal models, finite generation, pluricanonical systems, boundedness of Fano varieties, char p geometry Awards Leverhulme Prize 2010 Prize of the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris 2010 AMS Moore Prize 2016 Fields Medal 2018 Scientific career Fields Higher-dimensional and birational algebraic geometry Institutions University of Cambridge Doctoral advisor Ivan Fesenko and Vyacheslav Shokurov Website https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~cb496/