Mingjia Zhang studied mathematics in Beijing and Bonn and was a PhD student in Bonn - in the “Arithmetic Geometry and Representation Theory” group of the Mathematical Institute. In 2023, she received her PhD (supervisor: Peter Scholze) with her thesis titled “A PEL-type Igusa Stack and the p-adic G.” She is now a von Neumann Fellow at the IAS in Princeton and Princeton University. Mingjia Zhang is interested in the Langlands program and p-adic Hodge theory. She has been studying the geometry and cohomology of Shimura varieties, as well as their relationship to their local analogues.
Former BIGS PhD student Mingjia Zhang receives the 2026 Maryam Mirzakhani News Frontiers Prize Former BIGS PhD student Mingjia Zhang receives the 2026 Maryam Mirzakhani News Frontiers Prize
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced the winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prizes. Three women mathematicians recently completing PhDs each receives a $50,000 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize. Among them is Mingjia Zhang, a former BIGS PhD student from Bonn.
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