Claire Voisin awarded the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics 2024

The Crafoord Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Fondation Crafoord in Lund, Sweden. The Academy is responsible for selecting the laureates. The disciplines, which change each year, are mathematics and astronomy, geosciences, biosciences and polyarthritis.

Claire Voisin is the first woman to receive the prize in mathematics. Elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 2010, she became the first female mathematician to join the Collège de France in 2016, where she remained until 2020 as holder of the Chair of Algebraic Geometry. The mathematician was also awarded the 2016 CNRS Gold Medal, France's highest scientific distinction.

Claire Voisin is currently CNRS Research Director at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu (IMJ) - Sorbonne Université.

The Crafoord Prize rewards its winner with six million Swedish crowns. In astronomy, the prize money of six million Swedish kronor will be shared equally between the winners (Douglas Gough, University of Cambridge, UK, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Conny Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium). The prizes will be awarded at the Crafoord Days in Lund and Stockholm, on May 13-16, 2024.