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== Biografia ==

Figlio di un insegnante di educazione fisica delle scuole medie e di una ex-ballerina ed insegnante in una scuola primaria, Duminil-Copin crebbe nei sobborghi di Parigi, dove da bambino iniziò a praticare molti sport, tanto da valutare l'iscrizione ad un liceo sportivo, al fine di poter perseguire il suo interesse nella pallamano.

<ref name=qf>{{cite web | first=Jordana | last=Cepelewicz | title=Hugo Duminil-Copin Wins the Fields Medal | website=Quanta Magazine | date=5 July 2022 | url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/hugo-duminil-copin-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/ | access-date=5 July 2022 | archive-date=5 July 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705073201/https://www.quantamagazine.org/hugo-duminil-copin-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/ | url-status=live }}</ref> Alla fine propese per un liceo scientifico,<ref name=qf/> iscrivendosi dapprima al [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]] a Parigi, in seguito alla [[École normale supérieure (Paris)]] e infine alla [[Università Paris XI - Paris-Sud]]. Duminil-Copin decise di concentrarsi più sulla matematica che sulla fisica, perché riteneva il rigore delle dimostrazioni matematiche più soddisfacente, tuttavia iniziò ad interessarsi in [[Teoria della percolazione]] per approcciarsi ai problemi di [[meccanica statistica]]. <ref name=qf/> Nel 2008, si trasferì all'[[Università di Ginevra]] per scrivere la tesi di dottorato di ricerca con la supervisione della medaglia Fields [[Stanislav Smirnov]]. Duminil-Copin e Smirnov hanno usato la teoria della percolazione e i vertici connessi fra loro in un reticolo per modellizzare il flusso dei fluidi e le [[Transizione di fase|transizione di fase]].

The son of a middle school sports teacher and a former female dancer who became a primary school teacher, Duminil-Copin grew up in the outer suburbs of Paris, where he played a lot of sports as a child and initially considered attending a sports-oriented high school to pursue his interest in handball.<ref name=qf>{{cite web | first=Jordana | last=Cepelewicz | title=Hugo Duminil-Copin Wins the Fields Medal | website=Quanta Magazine | date=5 July 2022 | url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/hugo-duminil-copin-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/ | access-date=5 July 2022 | archive-date=5 July 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705073201/https://www.quantamagazine.org/hugo-duminil-copin-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/ | url-status=live }}</ref> He decided to attend a school focused on mathematics and science,<ref name=qf/> and enrolled at the [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]] in Paris, then at the [[École normale supérieure (Paris)]] and the [[Paris-Sud University|University Paris-Sud]]. He decided to focus on math instead of physics, because he found the rigour of mathematical proof more satisfying, but developed an interest in [[percolation theory]], which is used in [[mathematical physics]] to address issues in [[statistical mechanics]].<ref name=qf/> In 2008, he moved to the [[University of Geneva]] to write a PhD thesis under [[Stanislav Smirnov]], himself a Fields Medalist. Duminil-Copin and Smirnov used percolation theory and the vertices and edges connecting them in a lattice to model fluid flow and with it [[phase transition]]s. The pair investigated the number of [[self-avoiding walk]]s that were possible in [[hexagonal lattice]]s, connecting [[combinatorics]] to percolation theory. This was published in the ''[[Annals of Mathematics]]'' in 2012, the same year in which Duminil-Copil was awarded his PhD at the age of 27.<ref name=qf/> Duminil-Copin was also mentored by another Fields Medalist, [[Wendelin Werner]].<ref name="Breakthrough Prize "/>