[3][14][16][17] In fall 2014, Scholze was appointed the Chancellor's Professor at University of California, Berkeley, where he taught a course on p-adic geometry.

[18][19] In 2018, Scholze was appointed as a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

He presented in a more compact form some of the previous fundamental theories pioneered by Gerd Faltings, Jean-Marc Fontaine and later by Kiran Kedlaya.

His PhD thesis on perfectoid spaces[21] yields the solution to a special case of the weight-monodromy conjecture.

[35] In 2018, at thirty years old, Scholze, who was at the time serving as a mathematics professor at the University of Bonn, became one of the youngest mathematicians ever to be awarded the Fields Medal[36][37] for "transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields through his introduction of perfectoid spaces, with application to Galois representations, and for the development of new cohomology theories".

[39][40][41] In 2022 he became a foreign member of the Royal Society[42] and was awarded the Pius XI Medal from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.