Caucher Birkar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Caucher Birkar

Kurdish mathematician

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Marivan, Kurdistan Province, Iran

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United Kingdom, Iran

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Caucher Birkar (Kurdish: ????? ??????/Koçer Bîrkar?, lit.
'migrant mathematician'; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Persian: ?????? ????????); July 1978, in Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran) is a UK-based Iranian Kurdish mathematician and a professor at the University of Cambridge.Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry.
In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and in 2016, the AMS Moore Prize for the article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type", Journal of the AMS (2010) (joint with P.
Cascini, C.
Hacon and J.
McKernan).
He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018, "for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model program".