86 Notable alumni of
Paris-Sud University
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Paris-Sud University is 691st in the world, 246th in Europe, and 20th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 86 notable alumni from Paris-Sud University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with Paris-Sud University won Nobel Prizes in Physics.
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Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon
- Occupations
- investment bankerpretender to the French throne
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Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon, Prince of Montfort is a French businessman and the disputed head of the Imperial House of France, and as such the heir of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first Emperor of the French. He would be known as Napoleon VIII.
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Idriss Aberkane
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- vloggeressayistconference speaker
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Idriss Jamil Aberkane is a French public speaker and essayist. Known for his writings and lectures on personal development, he published a particularly successful essay in 2016, titled Free up your mind!. However, he has been accused of artificially inflating his resume, plagiarizing portions of one of this theses, and of using his three doctoral diplomas (Ph.Ds) to talk about sciences that are not in his areas of expertise, including claiming to be a "doctor of neuroscience" and "teacher-researcher". The scientific accuracy of some of his statements and publications was questioned by other researchers. His support for embattled French epidemiologist Didier Raoult, and his questioning of the reliability of COVID-19 vaccines, in particular Pfizer's, has caused him to be classified as an anti-vax conspiracist.
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Katarina Barley
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- judgepoliticianjuristJusticiar
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Katarina Barley is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, serving as one of its Vice-Presidents. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel. Prior to that, she had served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and since 28 September 2017 also as the acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, both until 14 March 2018.
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Ngô Bảo Châu
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1997 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics
- Occupations
- mathematicianprofessor
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Ngô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad). He is the first Vietnamese national to have received the Fields Medal.
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Alain Aspect
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1983 graduated with doctorate in France in physics
- Occupations
- quantum physicistresearcher
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Alain Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.
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Jean-Luc Lemoine
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- actor
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Jean-Luc Marie Lemoine is a French humourist, media personality and stand-up comedian.
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Sylvie Retailleau
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1992 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- professeur des universitésphysicistprofessor of physics
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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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Pierre Deligne
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Pierre René, Viscount Deligne is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoord Prize, and 1978 Fields Medal.
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Hugo Duminil-Copin
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Hugo Duminil-Copin is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022.
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Laurent Lafforgue
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1994 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- mathematician
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Laurent Lafforgue is a French mathematician. He has made outstanding contributions to Langlands' program in the fields of number theory and analysis, and in particular proved the Langlands conjectures for the automorphism group of a function field. The crucial contribution by Lafforgue to solve this question is the construction of compactifications of certain moduli stacks of shtukas. The proof was the result of more than six years of concentrated efforts.
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Salomé Saqué
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- journalist
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Salomé Saqué,, is a French journalist and writer. She has covered climate change, young people and gender inequality.
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Albert Fert
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- physicistuniversity teacherresearcher
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Albert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, scientific director of a joint laboratory (Unité mixte de recherche) between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Scientific Research Centre) and Thales Group, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Peter Grünberg.
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Didier Fassin
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1986 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- sociologistphysicianhumanitarianuniversity teacheranthropologist
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Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is a Professor at the Collège de France on the chair “Moral Questions and Social Issues in Contemporary Societies” and the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and holds a Direction of Studies in Political and Moral Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was elected to the Academy of Europe in 2021 was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
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Jean Jouzel
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1973 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- researcherresearch fellowclimatologistuniversity teacherglaciologist
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Jean Jouzel is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He has mainly worked on the reconstruction of past climate derived from the study of the Antarctic and Greenland ice.
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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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Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teacherchess playermathematician
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Jean-Christophe Yoccoz was a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems. Yoccoz died on 3 September 2016 at the age of 59.
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Michael Rapoport
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1976 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Michael Rapoport is an Austrian mathematician.
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Claire Voisin
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Claire Voisin is a French mathematician known for her work in algebraic geometry. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and holds the chair of algebraic geometry at the Collège de France.
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Frédérick Leboyer
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- Studied medicine
- Occupations
- physicianwritergynecologistobstetrician
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Frédérick Leboyer was a French obstetrician and author. He is best known for his 1975 book, Birth Without Violence, which popularized gentle birthing techniques, in particular, the practice of immersing newborn infants in a small tub of warm water — known as a "Leboyer bath" — to help ease the transition from the womb to the outside world. He also advocated low lighting and quiet in a warm room to limit the supposed shock of birth,[Reynolds, Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education, 138] and that a newborn be laid on its mother's stomach and allowed to bond, instead of being taken away for tests.
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Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga
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- politicianjournalistdiplomat
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Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga was a Malian politician who was the Prime Minister of Mali between 30 December 2017 and 18 April 2019. The leader of the Alliance for Solidarity in Mali, he had previously served in the government of Mali as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Amadou Toumani Touré from 5 April 2011 until the March 2012 coup d'état. Later he was Minister of Defense from 2013 to 2014 and was Secretary-General of the Presidency from 2016 to 2017.
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Michèle Audin
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1986 graduated with doctorate in France in mathematics
- Occupations
- mathematicianwriterhistorian of mathematicsuniversity teacher
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Michèle Audin is a French mathematician, writer, and a former professor. She has worked as a professor at the University of Geneva, the University of Paris-Saclay and most recently at the University of Strasbourg, where she performed research notably in the area of symplectic geometry.
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Bernard Bigot
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- university teachernuclear physicistofficialchemist
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Bernard Bigot was a French academic and civil servant. He served as the Director-General of the ITER organization between 2015 and 2022. He was the president of the École normale supérieure de Lyon and director of the French Commission for Atomic Energy.
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Modesto Montoya
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- politicianuniversity teachernuclear physicist
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Modesto Montoya is a nuclear physicist and former president of the Peruvian Institute for Nuclear Energy in Lima, Peru. He is a former president and current member of the Peruvian Academy of Nuclear Sciences, former president of the Peruvian Physical Society and member for Peruvian National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, he became an advisor to President Pedro Castillo on science matters. He served as minister of the environment of Peru.
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Éric Halphen
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- magistratewriter
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Éric Halphen is a French judge best known as the investigating magistrate in the Parisian low-cost housing scandals of the 1990s.
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Abdoulaye Diop
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- diplomatpolitician
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Abdoulaye Diop is a Malian diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali from 2014 to 2017 and again from 2021 onwards. Previously he was Mali's Ambassador to the United States, appointed to that position in 2003.
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Lassina Zerbo
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1993 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in geophysics
- Occupations
- politiciangeophysicist
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Lassina Zerbo is a Burkinabé politician and scientist who served as the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 2021 to 2022. Prior to that he was the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). On 24 January 2022, Zerbo was deposed from office in a coup d'état.
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Yasmine Belkaid
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1991 graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- researcherimmunologist
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Yasmine Belkaid is an Algerian immunologist who is best known for her work studying host-microbe interactions in tissues and immune regulation to microbes. Belkaid currently serves as the director of the NIAID Microbiome program. On March 29, 2023, she was appointed as President of the Pasteur Institute for a six-year term, starting from January 2024.
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 42)
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- Studied in 2005-2006
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientistsoftware developer
- Biography
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a French computer engineer and a major contributor to the VideoLAN project and VLC software.
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Jean-Marie Hullot
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1981 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- photographercomputer scientistengineerprogrammer
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Jean-Marie Hullot was a French computer scientist and programmer who authored important programs for the original Macintosh, NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X platforms. These include SOS Interface for the Mac, which later became Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP (1985), and later still evolved into an important part of Mac OS X. He also came up with the idea of the iPhone and led the iCal and iSync development teams for Mac OS X (2002).
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Roberto Battiston
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- experimental physicistphysicistuniversity teacher
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Roberto Battiston is an Italian physicist, specialized in the field of fundamental physics and elementary particles, and leading experts in the physics of cosmic rays. He was the president of the Italian Space Agency from 2014 to 2018 and president of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) Committee on Astroparticle Physics from 2009 to 2014.
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Aristidis Baltas
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- university teacherpoliticianphysicistphilosopher
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Aristides Baltas is a philosopher of science and physicist who served as the Minister of Culture and Sports of Greece and as the Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs in the cabinet of Alexis Tsipras from 27 January 2015 to 4 November 2016.
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Alain Fuchs
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
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Alain Fuchs was a Swiss-born French chemist. A Doctor of Science and Professor of Chemistry, he specialised in molecular simulation. Fuchs served as the president of Chimie ParisTech - PSL from 2006 to 2010. He also served as the president of the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 2010 to 2017.' Fuchs became an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 2014.
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Jean-Paul Delahaye
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- engineercomputer scientistphilosophermathematicianscience communicator
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Jean-Paul Delahaye is a French computer scientist and mathematician.
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Jean-Yves Le Gall
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- businesspersonengineer
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Jean-Yves Le Gall is an engineering graduate from the École supérieure d'optique (1981) and holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Paris-Sud (1983). He began his career in 1981 as a researcher at the Astronomy Laboratory, French National Scientific Research Center, where he worked on the European scientific satellites project Hipparcos and ISO. In 1985 he joined the Department of Industry and was assigned to the Space Office where he was particularly in charge of relations with the space industry.
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Gérard Laumon
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Gérard Laumon is a French mathematician working in number theory and the Langlands program.
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Ahmed Djebbar
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- mathematicianhistorian of mathematicshistorian of scienceprofesseur des universités
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Ahmed Djebbar is an academic and the Algerian minister for education in the 1992 government of Belaid Abdessalam.
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Hatem Ben Salem
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1984 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Mohamed Hatem Ben Salem is a Tunisian politician. He was the Minister of Education under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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Taraneh Javanbakht
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- composerphilosophersculptorphotographerliterary critic
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Taraneh Javanbakht is an Iranian-Canadian scientist and polymath.
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Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
- Occupations
- university teacherscience communicatorphysicistphilosopher
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Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond is a physicist and essayist.
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Iulia Motoc
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- university teacherjuristlawyerjudge
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Iulia Antoanella Motoc is a Romanian judge and international law expert, currently a Judge of the International Criminal Court. Before beginning her service at the Court, she was a Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, a professor at the University of Bucharest and a Judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania.
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Leila Schneps
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France in mathematics
- In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France in science and technology
- Occupations
- writernovelistmathematician
- Biography
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Leila Schneps is an American mathematician and fiction writer at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique working in number theory. Schneps has written general audience math books and, under the pen name Catherine Shaw, has written mathematically themed murder mysteries.
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Philippe Flajolet
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- mathematiciancomputer scientistresearcherengineer
- Biography
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Philippe Flajolet was a French computer scientist.
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Catherine Bréchignac
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1977 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- physicistresearcher
- Biography
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Catherine Bréchignac is a French physicist. She is a commander of the Légion d'honneur, "secrétaire perpétuel honoraire" of the Académie des sciences and former president of the CNRS ("National Centre for Scientific Research"). The Times says she has "a formidable reputation for determination, decisiveness and an aptitude for analysing and clarifying complex matters." As a president of the CNRS, she was responsible for 25,000 employees, 12,000 of whom are researchers, and a budget of 2.42 billion Euros.
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Sylvia Serfaty
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- university teachermathematicianacademic
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Sylvia Serfaty is a French mathematician working in the United States. She won the 2004 EMS Prize for her contributions to the Ginzburg–Landau theory, the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012, and the Mergier–Bourdeix Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2013.
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John H. Hubbard
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- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- information scientistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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John Hamal Hubbard is an American mathematician and professor at Cornell University and the Université de Provence. He is known for the mathematical contributions he made with Adrien Douady in the field of complex dynamics, including a study of the Mandelbrot set. One of their most important results is that the Mandelbrot set is connected.
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Constantino Tsallis
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Constantino Tsallis is a naturalized Brazilian physicist of Greek descent, working in Rio de Janeiro at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Brazil.
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Raphaël Liégeois
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 37)
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- Studied in 2010-2010
- Occupations
- astronautbiomedical engineerballoonist
- Biography
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Raphaël Liégeois is a Belgian-Luxembourgish biomedical engineer and astronaut. Liégeois completed a doctorate at the University of Liège on the functioning of the human brain from 2011 to 2015, and then held post-doctoral appointments at the National University of Singapore and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He has held a teaching and research position at the University of Geneva and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne since 2021. He was selected as a member of the 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group.
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Mohcine Jazouli
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohcine Jazouli is the Moroccan Delegate-Minister to the Head of Government of Investment, Convergence and the Evaluation of Public Policies. He was appointed as minister on 7 October 2021.
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Alexandra Recchia
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- 2011-2013 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- karateka
- Biography
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Alexandra Recchia is a French karateka. She is a two-time gold medalist in the women's kumite 50 kg event at the World Karate Championships and a two-time gold medalist in this event at the European Karate Championships.
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Jean-Philippe Uzan
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 56)
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1998 graduated with doctorate in France in cosmology
- Occupations
- astrophysicistcosmologist
- Biography
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Jean-Philippe Uzan is a French cosmologist and directeur de recherche employed by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
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Louis-Marie de Blignières
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- Catholic priesttheologian
- Biography
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Louis-Marie de Blignières, born Olivier de Blignières on April 11, 1949, in Madrid) is a French traditionalist Catholic priest, and the founder of the Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer.
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Françoise Brochard-Wyart
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1974 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachertheoretical physicist
- Biography
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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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Sandrine Bélier
- Occupations
- environmentalistpoliticianjurist
- Biography
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Sandrine Bélier is a French environmental jurist and politician of Europe Ecology – The Greens who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2014, representing the East constituency.
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Jean-Jacques Quisquater
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1987 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientistengineercryptographer
- Biography
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Jean-Jacques Quisquater is a Belgian cryptographer and a professor at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). He received, with Claus P. Schnorr, the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics and the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award in 2013.
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Denis Serre
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- 1977-1978 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Denis Serre is a French mathematician who works as a professor at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, where he has chaired the mathematics department since 2012. His research concerns partial differential equations, hydrodynamics, and conservation laws.
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Mary K. Gaillard
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Mary Katharine Gaillard is an American theoretical physicist. Her focus is on particle physics. She is a professor of the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, and visiting scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She was Berkeley's first tenured female physicist.
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Christine Petit
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- researchergeneticistbiologistprofessor
- Biography
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Christine Petit is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.
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Marie-Paule Cani
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcher
- Biography
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Marie-Paule Cani is a French computer scientist conducting advanced research in the fields of shape modeling and computer animation. She has contributed to over 300 research publications having around 12000 citations.
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Fabien Gouttefarde
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- cadres de la fonction publiquepolitician
- Biography
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Fabien Gouttefarde is a French lawyer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as member of the French National Assembly between 2017 and 2022, representing the 2nd constituency of Eure.
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Elisabeth Bouchaud
- Occupations
- theatre managerstage actorphysicistwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Elisabeth Bouchaud is a French physicist, playwright and actress born 1 March 1961. She is a member of Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), and works at Ecole Superieure de Chimie et Physique de la Ville de Paris. Since 2015, she is also the Director of the Théâtre de la Reine Blanche in Paris.
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Yves Laszlo
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Yves Laszlo is a French mathematician working in the University of Paris-Sud. He specializes in algebraic geometry.
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Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène is a French mathematician. He is a Directeur de Recherches at CNRS at the Université Paris-Saclay in Orsay. He studies mainly number theory and arithmetic geometry.
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Aline Bonami
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Aline Bonami is a French mathematician known for her expertise in mathematical analysis. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Orléans, and was president of the Société mathématique de France for 2012–2013.
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Bernard Chevassus-au-Louis
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- biologistecologist
- Biography
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Bernard Chevassus-au-Louis is a French biologist and ecologist, who served as the president of the National Museum of Natural History, France from 2002 to 2006. He was knighted with the Ordre national du Mérite in 2001.
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Fanny Kassel
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- mathematicianresearcher
- Biography
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Fanny Kassel is a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of Lie groups.
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Bernard Meunier
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1977 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teacherchemistresearch fellow
- Biography
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Bernard Meunier is a French chemist and academic. He has been a member of the Académie des sciences since 1999.
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Rama Cont
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1998 graduated with doctorate in France in mathematics
- Occupations
- editorauthorresearch fellowuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Rama Cont is the Statutory Professor of Mathematical Finance at the University of Oxford. He is known for contributions to probability theory, stochastic analysis and mathematical modelling in finance, in particular mathematical models of systemic risk. He was awarded the Louis Bachelier Prize by the French Academy of Sciences in 2010.
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Lenka Zdeborová
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcherphysicistscientist
- Biography
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Lenka Zdeborová is a Czech physicist and computer scientist who applies methods from statistical physics to machine learning and constraint satisfaction problems. She is a professor of physics and computer science and communication systems at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
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Pablo Artal Soriano
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Pablo Artal is a Spanish physicist and full professor specialized in optics at the University of Murcia, as well as in the development and application of new techniques in human vision research. He is the founder and director of the Optics Lab at Murcia University and received the Spanish National Research award "Juan de la Cierva" and the Rey Jaime I Award for New Technologies in 2015. His main research topics are the optics of the eye and the retina and the development of optical and electronic imaging techniques in the field of biomedicine, ophtalmology and vision. He has contributed to the advance of methods for the study of the optics of the eye and contributed to the understanding of the factors that limit the resolution of the human vision. Moreover, his discoveries and ideas have been applied to instruments and devices used in the clinical practice of ophthalmology.
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Samir Zard
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1983 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- organic chemistuniversity teacherresearcher
- Biography
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Samir Zard is a Lebanese-French chemist and the president of the department of chemistry at the École polytechnique, Paris, where he also directs the department of organic chemistry and synthesis.
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Tan Lei
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Tan Lei was a mathematician specialising in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers. She is most well-known for her contributions to the study of the Mandelbrot set and Julia set.
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Xiaonan Ma
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Xiaonan Ma is a Chinese mathematician working in global analysis and local index theory.
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Mathilda Twomey
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Mathilda Twomey is a Seychellois lawyer and academic. She is the first female judge in the history of Seychelles and also the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Seychelles.
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Marileen Dogterom
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1994 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in physics
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacherbiophysicist
- Biography
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Marileen Dogterom is a Dutch biophysicist and professor at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology. She published in Science, Cell, and Nature and is notable for her research of the cell cytoskeleton. For this research, she was awarded the 2018 Spinoza Prize.
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Osmar Zaiane
- Occupations
- computer scientistacademic
- Biography
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Osmar R. Zaiane is a researcher, computer scientist, professor at the University of Alberta specializing in data mining and machine learning. He was the secretary treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) from 2009 to 2012 and treasurer of the ACM Special Interest Group on Health Informatics. He served as the editor-in-chief of the SIGKDD Explorations publication from 2008 to 2010. He was also the associate editor of the same publication from 2004 to 2007.
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Cornelia Druțu
- Born in
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Romania - Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Cornelia Druțu is a Romanian mathematician notable for her contributions in the area of geometric group theory. She is Professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
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Philippe Michel
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1995 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- 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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Éric Brian
- Occupations
- historian of sciencesociologist
- Biography
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Éric Brian is a historian of science and a sociologist. He studies the uncertainty and regularity of social phenomena, and in particular, how scientists have caught and conceived them as objects of mathematics or social and economic sciences.
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Azra Quraishi
- Years
- 1945-2002 (aged 57)
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1976 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- physicistbotanist
- Biography
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Azra Quraishi was a leading botanist from Pakistan. She worked on the improvement of potato production in Pakistan and became known for her work on tissue culture. She was given the Borlaug Award in 1997 and the Ordre des Palmes académiques in 2002. She is credited with raising potato production in Pakistan by 5%.
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Jean-Daniel Fekete
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Jean-Daniel Fekete is a French computer scientist.
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Eric Urban
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Eric Jean-Paul Urban is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University working in number theory and automorphic forms, particularly Iwasawa theory.
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Jean-Louis Viovy
- Occupations
- physicistchemist
- Biography
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Jean Louis Viovy is a French physicist and polymer scientist and currently a researcher at CNRS. Since 1999, he leads within the Curie Institute (Paris) the MMBM team (Macromolecules and Microsystems in Biology and Medicine) dedicated to research on lab-on-chips, bioanalytical methods and translational medicine. He was awarded the Bronze Medal of the CNRS (1983), the Polymer Prize of the French Chemical Society (1996), the Philip Morris Scientific Prize in 1996 and two OSEO Entrepreneurship Awards in 2004 and 2005.
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Sihem Amer-Yahia
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcher
- Biography
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Sihem Amer-Yahia is an Algerian-French-American computer scientist. She is a CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble. She leads the SLIDE research team. Sihem Amer-Yahia works on data management, declarative languages and query processing algorithms. Her publication topics include crowdsourcing, computational complexity, data analysis, data handling, data visualisation, information science, and addresses new data management problems in emerging internet and big data applications.
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Philippe Sautet
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1989 graduated with doctorate in France in applied science
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacherresearcher
- Biography
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Philippe Sautet is a French chemist. He was elected to the French Academy of sciences on 30 November 2010. He was a research director at the CNRS and works in the chemistry laboratory of the École normale supérieure de Lyon where he devoted a large part of his scientific activity to molecular modelling. Now he is a professor at the University of California - Los Angeles.
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Habib Tawa
- Occupations
- journalisthistorianmathematician
- Biography
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Habib Tawa in Tripoli, Lebanon is a French historian, journalist and mathematician.
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Majed Chergui
- Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
- In 1981 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- physicistchemist
- Biography
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Majed Chergui is a Swiss and French physicist specialized in ultrafast dynamics of light-induced processes. He is a Honorary professor of the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the Université de Lausanne. He was founding director of the Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) at the EPFL between 2016 and 2021.
