Education
- Student of École Normale Supérieure,
1978 - 1983
- Thèse de 3ème cycle (=PhD), University
Paris 7, 1983
- Thèse d'État, University
Paris 7, 1988
Positions
- Since 2025, Professor Emeritus at
Sorbonne University
- Professor at
University Pierre and Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University), 1989 - 2025
- Professor at
École Normale Supérieure, 2000 - 2010
- Junior researcher at CNRS, École Polytechnique,
1985 - 1989
Fellowships and awards
- Jacques Tits Chair of the Belgian Mathematical Society, 2025 - 2026
- Francqui Chair, University of Mons, 2025 - 2026
- Distinguished Visitor lectures, NUS-IMS, Singapore, 2025
- Clay Senior Scholar, MSRI, 2020
- Member, Academia Europaea, 2019
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2016
- Senior Fellow, Institut Universitaire de France, 2015 - 2025
- Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul, 2014
- Silver medal of the CNRS, 2011
- ERC Advanced Investigator Grant, 2010 - 2015
- Plenary Speaker, European Congress of Mathematics, Amsterdam, 2008
- Prize Charles-Louis de Saulces de Freycinet of the French Academy of Sciences, 2007
- Ordway Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, 2006
- Plenary Speaker, AMS Algebraic Geometry Summer School, Seattle, 2005
- Junior Fellow, Institut Universitaire de France, 1992 - 1997