June E Huh

June Huh (Korean: 허준이; born 1983) is a Korean American mathematician and professor at Princeton University. Previously, he was a professor at Stanford University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022, and has been noted for the linkages that he has found between algebraic geometry and combinatorics.

Awards

• 2017: Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists (U.S. Regional)
• 2018: Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.
• 2019: New Horizons Prize for Early-Career Achievement in Mathematics, associated with the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
• 2021: Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Science for physics and mathematics.
• 2022: The Fields Medal for "bringing the ideas of Hodge theory to combinatorics, the proof of the Dowling–Wilson conjecture for geometric lattices, the proof of the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture for matroids, the development of the theory of Lorentzian polynomials, and the proof of the strong Mason conjecture".