Peter Scholze

Peter Scholze is a German mathematician. He is one of the most successful participants in the history of the International Mathematical Olympiad, having won three gold medals in the years 2005 to 2007 and one silver medal in 2004. In 2005, he obtained a perfect score of 42 points solving all six problems which are worth 7 points each. In 2008, he has been deputy team leader for German team at the IMO. In 2009, he has been part of the Problem Selection Committee for the 50th IMO in Bremen, Germany. Upon, his graduation from high-school, he has been involved in tutoring the top 16 German mathematics olympiad participants competing for the six team spots on the annual team representing Germany at the IMO.
He graduated from Heinrich-Hertz-Oberschule, Berlin with the top grade 1.0 (A+). He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn from 2007 to 2010. During that time, he obtained a bachelor's degree in 2008 with the title “Bad Reduction of Shimura Curves” under the supervision of Michael Rapoport, and in 2009 he submitted a master thesis on “The Langlands-Kottwitz approach for the modular curve” under the supervision of Rapoport.
He currently reads for a PhD at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn supported with a Hausdorff PhD grant of the Bonn International Graduate School in Mathematics. He is interested in arithmetic geometry where he worked on the bad reduction of Shimura varieties and the Langlands program.
Recently, he has been named as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of five years beginning July 1, 2011.

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