The European Prize in Combinatorics is a prize for research in

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and as an end to obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many ...

, a mathematical discipline, which is awarded biennially at Eurocomb, the European conference on combinatorics,

graph theory In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of ''graph (discrete mathematics), graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of ''Vertex (graph ...

, and applications.. The prize was first awarded at Eurocomb 2003 in

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. Recipients must not be older than 35. The most recent prize was awarded at Eurocomb 2023 in

. * 2003

Daniela Kühn Daniela Kühn (born 1973) is a German mathematician and the Mason Professor in Mathematics at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England.

, Deryk Osthus, Alain Plagne. * 2005 Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov * 2007 Gilles Schaeffer. * 2009

Peter Keevash Peter Keevash (born 30 November 1978) is a British mathematician, working in combinatorics. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Mansfield College. Early years Keevash was born in Brighton, England, but ...

, Balázs Szegedy * 2011

David Conlon David Conlon (born 1982) is an Irish mathematician who is a Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests are in Hungarian-style combinatorics, particularly Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory, combin ...

, Daniel Kráľ * 2013 Wojciech Samotij, Tom Sanders * 2015 Karim Adiprasito, Zdeněk Dvořák, Rob Morris * 2017 Christian Reiher,

Maryna Viazovska Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska (, ; born 2 December 1984) is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She is a full professor and Chair of Number Theory Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to ...

* 2019

Richard Montgomery Richard Montgomery (2 December 1738 – 31 December 1775) was an Irish-born American military officer who first served in the British Army. He later became a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and ...

and Alexey Pokrovskiy * 2021 Péter Pál Pach,

Julian Sahasrabudhe Julian Sahasrabudhe (born May 8, 1988) is a Canadian mathematician who is an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, in their Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. His research interests are in e ...

Lisa Sauermann Lisa Sauermann (born 25 September 1992) is a mathematician from Germany known for her performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad, where in 2011 she had the single highest (and perfect) score. She won four gold medals (2008–2011) and ...

, István Tomon * 2023 Johannes Carmesin, Felix Joos

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