Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize

Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
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Published Sep 13, 2026 Updated Sep 13, 2026 1 min read
Name Breakthrough Prize
Type Science Awards
Award For Outstanding contributions in life sciences, fundamental physics, and mathematics
Award By Breakthrough Prize Organization
First 2012
Last 5th April 2025
Status Active

About Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize

The New Horizons in Mathematics Prize of $100,000 is awarded to promising early-career researchers who have already produced important work. Each year, up to three New Horizons in Mathematics Prizes are awarded.

Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize Winners List

This Winners List features 34 winners of the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, from 2016 to 2025.

Image Year Winner Name Country Disciplines
Ewain Gwynne 2025
Ewain Gwynne
United States New Horizons Mathematics
Ewain Gwynne won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For contributions to conformal probability, in particular to the understanding of the LQG metric.
John Pardon 2025
John Pardon
United States New Horizons Mathematics
John Pardon won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For contributions to symplectic topology and other areas of geometry and topology.
Sam Raskin 2025
Sam Raskin
United States New Horizons Mathematics
Sam Raskin won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For contributions to the geometric Langlands program, including the theory of the Whittaker model and the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture in characteristic 0.
Roland Bauerschmidt 2024
Roland Bauerschmidt
Germany New Horizons Mathematics
Roland Bauerschmidt won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For outstanding contributions to probability theory and the development of renormalisation group techniques.
Michael Groechenig 2024
Michael Groechenig
Austria New Horizons Mathematics
Michael Groechenig won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For contributions to the theory of rigid local systems and applications of p-adic integration to mirror symmetry and the fundamental lemma.
Angkana Rüland 2024
Angkana Rüland
Germany New Horizons Mathematics
Angkana Rüland won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For contributions to applied analysis, in particular the analysis of microstructure in solid-solid phase transitions and the theory of inverse problems.
Ana Caraiani 2023
Ana Caraiani
Romania, United Kingdom New Horizons Mathematics
Ana Caraiani won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For diverse transformative contributions to the Langlands program, and in particular for work with Peter Scholze on the Hodge-Tate period map for Shimura varieties and its applications.
Ronen Eldan 2023
Ronen Eldan
Israel New Horizons Mathematics
Ronen Eldan won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For the creation of the stochastic localization method, that has led to significant progress in several open problems in high-dimensional geometry and probability, including Jean Bourgain's slicing problem and the KLS conjecture.
James Maynard 2023
James Maynard
United Kingdom New Horizons Mathematics
James Maynard won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For multiple contributions to analytic number theory, and in particular to the distribution of prime numbers.
Aaron Brown 2022
Aaron Brown
Not Found New Horizons Mathematics
Aaron Brown won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For contributions to the proof of Zimmer’s conjecture.
Sebastian Hurtado Salazar 2022
Sebastian Hurtado Salazar
Colombia New Horizons Mathematics
Sebastian Hurtado Salazar won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For contributions to the proof of Zimmer’s conjecture.
Jack Thorne 2022
Jack Thorne
United Kingdom New Horizons Mathematics
Jack Thorne won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For transformative contributions to diverse areas of algebraic number theory, and in particular for the proof, in collaboration with James Newton, of the automorphy of all symmetric powers of a holomorphic modular newform.
Jacob Tsimerman 2022
Jacob Tsimerman
Canada New Horizons Mathematics
Jacob Tsimerman won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For outstanding work in analytic number theory and arithmetic geometry, including breakthroughs on the André-Oort and Griffiths conjectures.
Bhargav Bhatt 2021
Bhargav Bhatt
India, United States New Horizons Mathematics
Bhargav Bhatt won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For outstanding work in commutative algebra and arithmetic algebraic geometry, particularly on the development of p-adic cohomology theories.
Aleksandr Logunov 2021
Aleksandr Logunov
Russia New Horizons Mathematics
Aleksandr Logunov won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For novel techniques to study solutions to elliptic equations, and their application to long-standing problems in nodal geometry.
Song Sun 2021
Song Sun
China New Horizons Mathematics
Song Sun won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For many groundbreaking contributions to complex differential geometry, including existence results for Kahler-Einstein metrics and connections with moduli questions and singularities.
Emmy Murphy 2020
Emmy Murphy
United States New Horizons Mathematics
Emmy Murphy won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For contributions to symplectic and contact geometry, in particular the introduction of notions of loose Legendrian submanifolds and, with Matthew Strom Borman and Yakov Eliashberg, overtwisted contact structures in higher dimensions.
Tim Austin 2020
Tim Austin
United Kingdom New Horizons Mathematics
Tim Austin won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For multiple contributions to ergodic theory, most notably the solution of the weak Pinsker conjecture.
Xinwen Zhu 2020
Xinwen Zhu
China New Horizons Mathematics
Xinwen Zhu won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For work in arithmetic algebraic geometry including applications to the theory of Shimura varieties and the Riemann-Hilbert problem for p-adic varieties.
Karim Adiprasito 2019
Karim Adiprasito
Germany New Horizons Mathematics
Karim Adiprasito won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For the development, with Eric Katz, of combinatorial Hodge theory leading to the resolution of the log-concavity conjecture of Rota.
June Huh 2019
June Huh
South Korea, United States New Horizons Mathematics
June Huh won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For the development, with Eric Katz, of combinatorial Hodge theory leading to the resolution of the log-concavity conjecture of Rota.
Kaisa Matomäki 2019
Kaisa Matomäki
Finland New Horizons Mathematics
Kaisa Matomäki won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For fundamental breakthroughs in the understanding of local correlations of values of multiplicative functions.
Maksym Radziwill 2019
Maksym Radziwill
Poland, Canada New Horizons Mathematics
Maksym Radziwill won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For fundamental breakthroughs in the understanding of local correlations of values of multiplicative functions.
Chenyang Xu 2019
Chenyang Xu
China New Horizons Mathematics
Chenyang Xu won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For major advances in the minimal model program and applications to the moduli of algebraic varieties.
Zhiwei Yun 2018
Zhiwei Yun
China, United States New Horizons Mathematics
Zhiwei Yun won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For deep work on the global Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture and the discovery of geometric interpretations for the higher derivatives of L-functions in the function field case.
Wei Zhang 2018
Wei Zhang
China New Horizons Mathematics
Wei Zhang won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For deep work on the global Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture and the discovery of geometric interpretations for the higher derivatives of L-functions in the function field case.
Maryna Viazovska 2018
Maryna Viazovska
Ukraine, Switzerland New Horizons Mathematics
Maryna Viazovska won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For remarkable application of the theory of modular forms to the sphere packing problem in special dimensions.
Aaron Naber 2018
Aaron Naber
United States New Horizons Mathematics
Aaron Naber won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For work in geometric analysis and Riemannian geometry, introducing powerful new techniques to solve outstanding problems, particularly for manifolds with Ricci curvature bounds.
Geordie Williamson 2017
Geordie Williamson
Australia New Horizons Mathematics
Geordie Williamson won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For pioneering work in geometric representation theory, including the development of Hodge theory for Soergel bimodules and the proof of the Kazhdan-Lusztig conjectures for general Coxeter groups.
Benjamin Elias 2017
Benjamin Elias
Not Found New Horizons Mathematics
Benjamin Elias won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For pioneering work in geometric representation theory, including the development of Hodge theory for Soergel bimodules and the proof of the Kazhdan-Lusztig conjectures for general Coxeter groups.
Hugo Duminil-Copin 2017
Hugo Duminil-Copin
France New Horizons Mathematics
Hugo Duminil-Copin won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For brilliant solutions to multiple landmark problems in probability, particularly regarding critical phenomena for Ising-type models.
Mohammed Abouzaid 2017
Mohammed Abouzaid
Morocco New Horizons Mathematics
Mohammed Abouzaid won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For distinguishing cotangent bundles of exotic spheres, constructing the wrapped Fukaya category with Paul Seidel, and other decisive contributions to symplectic topology and mirror symmetry.
Larry Guth 2016
Larry Guth
United States New Horizons Mathematics
Larry Guth won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For ingenious and surprising solutions to long standing open problems in symplectic geometry, Riemannian geometry, harmonic analysis, and combinatorial geometry.
André Arroja Neves 2016
André Arroja Neves
Portugal New Horizons Mathematics
André Arroja Neves won the Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics For outstanding contributions to several areas of differential geometry, including work on scalar curvature, geometric flows, and his solution with Fernando Codá Marques of the 50-year-old Willmore Conjecture.

Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize Award Chart by Country

This chart tracks Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize winners by year from 2016 to 2025, spanning 10 years, with the most wins (5) recorded in 2019.

Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize Award Chart by Disciplines

This chart groups 34 Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize winners by Disciplines, across 1 distinct entry — New Horizons Mathematics leads with 34 wins.

Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize Award FAQs

The Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize covers Breakthrough Prize winners recognized for New Horizons Mathematics.

The Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize is part of the Breakthrough Prize, a Science Awards award.

The Breakthrough Prize is awarded for Outstanding contributions in life sciences, fundamental physics, and mathematics.

The Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize is presented by Breakthrough Prize Organization.

The Breakthrough Prize was first awarded in 2012.

The most recent Breakthrough Prize was awarded in April 5, 2025.

Yes, the Breakthrough Prize is currently active.
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