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Caucher Birkar FRS (born Fereydoun Derakhshani July 1978, in Marivan County, Kurdistan) is a UK-based mathematician and a professor at the University of Cambridge. Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry. In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and in 2016, the AMS Moore Prize for the article “Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type”, Journal of the AMS (2010) (joint with P. Cascini, C. Hacon and J. McKernan).