Ehud Hrushovski elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society

Ehud Hrushovski, Merton Professor of Mathematical Logic, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Professor Hrushovski is a mathematical logician, concerned with mapping the interactions and interpretations among different mathematical worlds. He studied at UC Berkeley, and has worked at Princeton, Rutgers, MIT, Paris, and for 25 years at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before coming to Oxford.

Professor Hrushovski is well known for several fundamental contributions to model theory, in particular in the branch that has become known as geometric model theory, and its applications.

Commenting on his election, Professor Hrushovski said:

"I joined model theory just as it had achieved new levels of depth, with Saharon Shelah’s stability theory and Boris Zilber’s geometric model theory.

"Previous work, envisaged by Abraham Robinson, had created an interface with algebra and geometry; one of the contributors was Angus Macintyre, Boris Zilber’s predecessor as Merton Professor of Mathematical Logic.

"These three streams were ripe to be joined together. I am very grateful to have been able to participate in the resulting development,  and feel greatly honoured by this recognition."

Professor Hrushovski is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has co-authored papers with forty-five collaborators, and has previously received a number of awards including the Karp, Erdős, and Rothschild prizes, and the 2019 Heinz Hopf prize.

Professor Hrushovski is one of more than 60 exceptional scientists from around the world elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society this year. Announcing their election, Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, said:

"At this time of global crisis, the importance of scientific thinking, and the medicines, technologies and insights it delivers, has never been clearer. Our Fellows and Foreign Members are central to the mission of the Royal Society, to use science for the benefit of humanity.

"While election to the Fellowship is a recognition of exceptional individual contributions to the sciences, it is also a network of expertise that can be drawn on to address issues of societal, and global significance. This year’s Fellows and Foreign Members have helped shape the 21st century through their work at the cutting-edge of fields from human genomics, to climate science and machine learning. 

"It gives me great pleasure to celebrate these achievements, and those yet to come, and welcome them into the ranks of the Royal Society."