8. Wendelin Werner
Wendelin was born in Germany but moved to France in 1977 where he studied and got his Doctorate in mathematics.
He received several awards, starting with the Davidson Prize in 1998. Wendelin became famous mostly for his work on random walks and Schramm-Lawler evolution with parameter k, which he worked on with Oded Schramm and Gregory Lawler and got the SIAM George Polya Prize in 2006. That same year he received the Fields Medal.
