Takurō Mochizuki

Takurō Mochizuki (望月 拓郎, born 28 August 1972) is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University.

As a student at the University of Kyoto in 1994, Mochizuki left his undergraduate studies early to become a graduate student in mathematics at the same university.

He completed his Ph.D. in 1999, and joined the faculty of Osaka City University, returning to Kyoto in 2004.

[1] He was awarded the Japan Academy Prize in 2011 for his research on D-modules in algebraic analysis.

[3] Mochizuki was awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his work on "the theory of bundles with flat connections over algebraic varieties".