Professor Richard Montgomery wins the 2025-26 Adams Prize

Huge congratulations to Professor Richard Montgomery, who is one of the joint-winners of this year's Adams Prize.

The Adams Prize is one of the University of Cambridge's oldest and most prestigious prizes, and is awarded to UK-based researchers, under the age of 40, doing first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences.

This year's topic was 'discrete mathematics' and Professor Montgomery was jointly awarded the prize alongside Julian Sahasrabudhe (Cambridge).

According to the Adams Prize website, Professor Montgomery was recognised for his profound contributions to extremal combinatorics. His many important contributions include his proof of the celebrated Ryser-Brualdi-Stein conjecture on Latin squares, his result on transversal decompositions of random Latin squares, his proof of Ringel's conjecture on tree packing and his work resolving several old problems of Erdős and his collaborators on cycles in graphs.

Previous winners can be found on the Adams prize website - congratulations again to Professor Montgomery!