Gregory Miermont, mathematician, UMPA

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  • Professor of Mathematics at ENS de Lyon, affiliated to the UMPA
  • IUF Senior Member from 2023 to 2028
  • Winner of the CNRS Silver medal in 2018
  • IUF Junior Member from 2013 to 2018

Biography

Grégory Miermont (born 1979) is a French mathematician.

He studied from 1998 to 2002 at the École normale supérieure in Paris and spent 2001-2002 as a visiting student at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his doctorate at the University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Sorbonne University) in 2003, under the supervision of Jean Bertoin. He became a researcher at the CNRS in 2004 at the University Paris-Sud (Paris-Saclay) and at the École normale supérieure in Paris, before being recruited professor in 2009, first at the University Paris-Sud, then since 2012, at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, where he was assigned to the Pure and Applied Mathematics Unit (UMPA).

 

Awards and honours

- Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France) in 2023
- CNRS Silver medal  in 2018
- Jaffé Prize in 2016
- Cino Del Duca "Young Team" Award in 2015
- Wolfgang Doeblin Prize in 2014
- Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France) in 2013
- EMS Prize of the European Mathematical Society in 2012
- Rollo Davidson Award in 2009
- Prize of the Fondation des sciences mathématiques de Paris in 2007

 


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