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Math professor Otis Chodosh awarded for work on minimal surfaces and scalar curvature

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Chodosh is the winner of the 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, which recognizes promising early-career researchers who already produced important work.

News • University Math professor Otis Chodosh awarded for work on minimal surfaces and scalar curvature Otis Chodosh. (Courtesy of the Stanford Report) By Angikar Ghosal May 7, 2026, 12:46 a.m. Associate professor of mathematics Otis Chodosh ’10 Ph.D. ’15 received the 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The prize comes with a $100,000 award and recognizes promising early-career researchers who have already produced important work. This year, the Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded six Breakthrough Prizes of $3 million each and recognized 15 early-ca

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