Princeton Math Professor Among MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners

PRINCETON, NJ – June Huh, a mathematics professor from Princeton University was named one of the recipients of the prestigious MacArthur Genius Grant.

Huh will receive a no-strings-attached $800,000 grant over a period of five years. He was awarded the grant for “discovering underlying connections between disparate areas of mathematics and proving long-standing mathematical conjectures,” according to the MacArthur Foundation.

Huh thanked his teachers, friends and collaborators. “They are the source of all my mathematical outputs. As I grow older, I am becoming more convinced that the greatest ideas reveal themselves as we interact with each other,” Huh said in a statement.

Born in California, Huh and his family moved to Seoul where his father taught statistics and his mother taught Russian literature. He received a BS and an MS from Seoul National University and a PhD in 2014 from the University of Michigan.

He previously worked at Stanford University, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Clay Mathematics Institute. Huh joined the Princeton faculty in 2021.

“June Huh is a rare and distinctive talent with an inspiring combination of mathematical genius and creativity,” Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber said in a statement.

“All of us at Princeton are thrilled that the MacArthur Foundation has recognized this extraordinary scholar, and we look forward to what he will do in the future.”

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