of graph theory, which had been unresolved for more than 40 years. In joint work with Karim Adiprasito and Eric Katz, he resolved the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture on the log-concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids. With Karim Adiprasito, he is one of five winners of the 2019 New Horizons Prize for Early-Career Achievement in Mathematics, associated with the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. He was a winner of Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists (U.S. Regional) in 2017. Huh was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. In 2021, he received the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Science for physics and mathematics. Huh was awarded the 2022 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". June Huh is the ninth Asian recipient of the prize and the first Korean recipient of the prize. Personal life Huh is married to Kim Nayoung, whom he met through his mathematical studies at Seoul National University. She graduated from Seoul National University with a doctorate in mathematics. They have two sons. References External links 1983 births Living people 21st-century American mathematicians Algebraic geometers American academics of Korean descent American expatriates in South Korea Combinatorialists Fields Medalists Mathematicians from California MacArthur Fellows People from Stanford, California Princeton University faculty Recipients of the Ho-Am Prize in Science Seoul National University alumni Stanford University Department of Mathematics faculty University of Michigan alumni Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars