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Ehud Hrushovski

Ehud Hrushovski is an Israeli mathematical logician known for his work in model theory and its uses in geometry, and he won the Shaw Prize in 2022.

born 1959Geometric model theoryHrushovski constructionsProof of geometric Mordell-Lang conjecture

Born: 30 September 1959
Occupation: mathematician, university teacher, logician
Education: University of California, Berkeley

Ehud Hrushovski was born in 1959

Ehud Hrushovski was born on 30 September 1959. His father, Benjamin Harshav, was a literary scholar, translator and Yiddish poet who taught at Yale University and Tel Aviv University. His mother is the psychoanalyst Rena Moses Hrushovski.

He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, under Leo Harrington. His thesis dealt with stable model theory.

He taught mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1994, then became a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2017 he moved to the University of Oxford as Merton Professor of Mathematical Logic. In 2025 he moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science.

His work is in geometric model theory. He found counterexamples to a conjecture of Boris Zilber, and his method became known as Hrushovski constructions. In 1996 he proved the geometric Mordell-Lang conjecture using model theory.

Ehud Hrushovski's life in 9 milestones

1986
Earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
1994
Became a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and won the Erdős Prize.
1996
Proved the geometric Mordell-Lang conjecture.
1998
Won the Rothschild Prize and spoke at a plenary session of the International Congress of Mathematicians.
2008
Elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
2017
Moved to the University of Oxford.
2020
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
2022
Won the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences with Noga Alon.
2025
Moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science.