Frontiers Award for two mathematicians who joined their fields to understand the subatomic world. Claire Voisin and Yakov Eliashbeg adapted and related two areas of geometry to provide mathematical foundations for quantum field theory.

The award-winning researchers have made outstanding contributions to the so-called algebraic and symplectic geometries. In the previous edition of the award, worth 400,000 euros, the Fronteras went to three physicists, Anne L'Huillier, Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz.