23 Notable alumni of
Normal Superior School of Paris-Saclay
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The Normal Superior School of Paris-Saclay is 1606th in the world, 554th in Europe, and 53rd in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from the Normal Superior School of Paris-Saclay sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Alain Aspect
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- physicistresearcher
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Alain Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.
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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
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- sociologistphilosopher
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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is a French philosopher and sociologist.
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Gabriel Zucman
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- university teachereconomist
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Gabriel Zucman is a French economist known for his expertise on tax havens. He has been a chaired professor at the Paris School of Economics since 2023, Summer Research Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and the director of the EU Tax Observatory in Paris.
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Sylvie Retailleau
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- professor of physicsprofesseur des universitésphysicist
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Sylvie Retailleau is a French physicist and politician who has been serving as Minister of Higher Education in the government of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal since 20 May 2022. She served as president of Paris-Sud University from 2016 to 2022.
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Philippe Aghion
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- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Philippe Mario Aghion FBA is a French economist who is Chair of Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth professor at the Collège de France and the Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor in Innovation and Growth at INSEAD. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
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Thomas Cazenave
- Enrolled in the Normal Superior School of Paris-Saclay
- Studied in 1998
- Occupations
- officialpoliticiancadres de la fonction publique
- Biography
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Thomas Cazenave is a French civil servant and politician of the Renaissance party who served as Minister in charge of Public Accounts in the government of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal from 2023 to 2024.
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Marie-Noëlle Lienemann
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- university teacherpolitician
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Marie-Noëlle Lienemann is a French politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the North West of France. Until 2018, she was a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
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Jakob von Weizsäcker
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- university teachereconomistpolitician
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Jakob von Weizsäcker is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister of Finance in the government of Minister-President of the Saarland Anke Rehlinger since the 2022 state elections.
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Bernard Charlès
- Enrolled in the Normal Superior School of Paris-Saclay
- 1979-1980 studied mechanical engineering
- Studied in 1977-1982
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
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Bernard Charlès is a French business executive. He is the Chairman of the board of directors of Dassault Systèmes, "the 3DEXPERIENCE Company", world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Charlès is the 13th best-performing CEO in the world according to the Harvard Business Review 2017 ranking. In 2018 Dassault Systèmes was named the most sustainable corporation in the world in the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World index by Corporate Knights.
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Luis Vassy
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- diplomatofficial
- Biography
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Luis Vassy is a French high ranking civil servant, diplomat, and director of Sciences Po.
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Jacques Lévy
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- university teachergeographergeopolitical analyst
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Jacques Lévy is a professor of geography and urbanism at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He is the director of Chôros Laboratory and of the Doctoral Program in Architecture and Science of the City. He is the cofounder of the scientific journal EspacesTemps.net ( ISSN 1777-5477). He published in French, along with Michel Lussault [es; fr], the dictionary of geography and space of societies, Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l’espace des sociétés.He has contributed to in the epistemological and theoretical reform of geography as a science of the spatial dimension of the social, open to the social sciences and philosophy. Starting from political geography, he has most notably explored the city, urbanity, Europe and globalization. He works also for the introduction of non-verbal languages, especially audio-visual languages, at all levels of research. In 2013 he made a feature film, Urbanity/ies, which is intended as a manifesto for scientific film.
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Marc Yor
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Marc Yor was a French mathematician well known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lévy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance.
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Françoise Brochard-Wyart
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- university teachertheoretical physicistphysicist
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Françoise Brochard-Wyart is a French theoretical physicist of soft matter. Currently, she is a emeritus professor of physical chemistry of Sorbonne University at the Curie Institute in Paris.
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Pierre Maille
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- politician
- Biography
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Pierre Maille is a French politician.
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Marc Fontecave
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- university teacherbioinorganic chemistresearcherprofessorchemist
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Marc Fontecave is a French chemist. An international specialist in bioinorganic chemistry, he currently teaches at the Collège de France in Paris, where he heads the Laboratory of Chemistry of Biological Processes.
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Emmanuel Ullmo
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- mathematician
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Emmanuel Ullmo is a French mathematician, specialised in arithmetic geometry. Since 2013 he has served as director of the Institut des Hautes Études scientifiques.
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Elie Bursztein
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- computer scientistengineercomputer securitycryptographer
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Elie Bursztein, is a French computer scientist and software engineer. He is Google and DeepMind AI cybersecurity technical and research lead.
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Julie Battilana
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- sociologisteconomist
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Julie Battilana is a scholar, educator, and advisor in the areas of social innovation and social change at Harvard University. She is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Erwan Dianteill
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- anthropologistsociologist
- Biography
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Erwan Dianteill is a French sociologist and anthropologist, graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, holder of the aggregation in the Social Sciences, Doctor of Sociology and professor of Cultural and Social anthropology at the Sorbonne (University of Paris, est. 2019). He is also Senior Laureate of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2012 and Non-Resident Fellow of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University since 2017. Dianteill's work explores anthropological and sociological theories about religion and interconnections between political and religious powers. It also includes the study of symbolic origins of domination and resistance. He is a specialist in the anthropology of African and African-American religions.
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Emmanuel Trélat
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- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Emmanuel Trélat is a French mathematician.
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Philippe Michel
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- mathematician
- Biography
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Philippe Gabriel Michel is a French mathematician who holds the chair in analytic number theory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
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François Pierrot
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- engineer
- Biography
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François Pierrot is director of research in The Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics, and Microelectronics (LIRMM).
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Patricia Bouyer-Decitre
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- 1976-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcher
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Patricia Bouyer-Decitre is a French theoretical computer scientist known for her research on timed automata, model checking, and temporal logic. She is a senior researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and director of the Laboratoire Méthodes Formelles (Formal Methods Lab) of CNRS and the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.
