Education
École Normale Supérieure.
mathematician university professor
École Normale Supérieure.
He is Professor of Mathematics at the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris. From 2000 to 2010 he was Professor at École Normale Supérieure. He was awarded the National Center for Scientific Research Silver Medal in 2011 and the Charles-Louis de Saulces de Freycinet Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2007.
He was awarded an European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant in 2010 and has been a Plenary Speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics in Amsterdam in 2008.
In 2015 he was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to algebraic and arithmetic geometry and to model theory". He is a specialist of algebraic geometry and is best known for his work on motivic integration, part of it in collaboration with January Denef.
Since 2015, he is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
