86 Notable alumni of
Paris-Sud University

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Paris-Sud University is 667th in the world, 242nd 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.

  1. Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon

    Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1986-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    investment bankerpretender to the French throne
    Biography

    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.

  2. Idriss Aberkane

    Idriss Aberkane
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1986-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    essayistconference speakervlogger
    Biography

    Idriss Jamil Aberkane is a French public speaker and essayist. Known for his writings and lectures on personal development, he published a particularly popular essay in 2016, titled Free your brain! Treaty of neurowisdom to change school and society. 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 "researcher". The scientific accuracy of some of his statements and publications has been 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, have caused him to be classified as an anti-vax conspiracist.

  3. Katarina Barley

    Katarina Barley
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1968-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    juristJusticiarjudgepolitician
    Biography

    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.

  4. Nicușor Dan

    Nicușor Dan
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1969-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    mathematicianactivistuniversity teacherpolitician
    Biography

    Nicușor Daniel Dan is a Romanian mathematician and politician serving as the seventh president of Romania since 2025. He previously served as the mayor of Bucharest from 2020 to 2025 and as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2016 to 2020.

  5. Ngô Bảo Châu

    Ngô Bảo Châu
    Born in
    Vietnam Flag Vietnam
    Years
    1972-.. (age 54)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1997 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics
    Occupations
    mathematicianprofessor
    Biography

    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.

  6. Alain Aspect

    Alain Aspect
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1947-.. (age 79)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1983 graduated with doctorate in France in physics
    Occupations
    physicistresearcher
    Biography

    Alain Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.

  7. Jean-Luc Lemoine

    Jean-Luc Lemoine
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1970-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    actor
    Biography

    Jean-Luc Marie Lemoine is a French humourist, media personality and stand-up comedian.

  8. Sylvie Retailleau

    Sylvie Retailleau
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1965-.. (age 61)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1992 graduated with doctorate
    Occupations
    professor of physicsprofesseur des universitésphysicist
    Biography

    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.

  9. Pierre Deligne

    Pierre Deligne
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1944-.. (age 82)
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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 1978 Fields Medal, 1988 Crafoord Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize and 2013 Abel Prize.

  10. Hugo Duminil-Copin

    Hugo Duminil-Copin
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1985-.. (age 41)
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Hugo Duminil-Copin is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022.

  11. Laurent Lafforgue

    Laurent Lafforgue
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1966-.. (age 60)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1994 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    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.

  12. Albert Fert

    Albert Fert
    Awards
    Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1938-.. (age 88)
    Occupations
    university teacherresearcherphysicist
    Biography

    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.

  13. Didier Fassin

    Didier Fassin
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1955-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1986 graduated with master's degree
    Occupations
    humanitarianuniversity teacheranthropologistsociologistphysician
    Biography

    Didier Fassin 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.

  14. Jean Jouzel

    Jean Jouzel
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1947-.. (age 79)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1973 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    researcherresearch fellowclimatologistuniversity teacherglaciologist
    Biography

    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.

  15. Marie-Noëlle Lienemann

    Marie-Noëlle Lienemann
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1951-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    university teacherpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  16. Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

    Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1957-2016 (aged 59)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    chess playermathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Jean-Christophe Yoccoz was a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems.

  17. Michel Devoret

    Michel Devoret
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1953-.. (age 73)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    1975-1982 graduated with doctorate
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    Michel Henri Devoret is a French-American physicist. He is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University. He serves as the Chief Scientist for Quantum Hardware at Google Quantum AI. He is known for the development of various superconducting quantum computing architectures, including the quantronium, the transmon, and the fluxonium.

  18. Michael Rapoport

    Michael Rapoport
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1948-.. (age 78)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1976 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Michael Rapoport is an Austrian mathematician.

  19. Claire Voisin

    Claire Voisin
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1962-.. (age 64)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    Claire Voisin is a French mathematician known for her work in algebraic geometry. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and held the chair of algebraic geometry at the Collège de France from 2015 to 2020.

  20. Michèle Audin

    Michèle Audin
    Born in
    Algeria Flag Algeria
    Years
    1954-2025 (aged 71)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1986 graduated with doctorate in France in mathematics
    Occupations
    university teacherwriterhistorianmathematicianhistorian of mathematics
    Biography

    Michèle Audin was a French mathematician, writer and academic. She worked as a professor at the University of Geneva, the University of Paris-Saclay and lastly at the University of Strasbourg, where she performed research notably in the area of symplectic geometry.

  21. Jean-Baptiste Kempf

    Jean-Baptiste Kempf
    Years
    1983-.. (age 43)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    Studied in 2005-2006
    Occupations
    computer scientistsoftware developerengineer
    Biography

    Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a French computer engineer and entrepreneur. He is a major contributor to the VideoLAN project and VLC software.

  22. Yasmine Belkaid

    Yasmine Belkaid
    Born in
    Algeria Flag Algeria
    Years
    1968-.. (age 58)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1991 graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
    Occupations
    researcherimmunologist
    Biography

    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. She is the daughter of the former Algerian politician Abu Bekr Belkaid.

  23. Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga

    Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga
    Born in
    Mali Flag Mali
    Years
    1954-2022 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    journalistdiplomatministerpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  24. Nadia Benmokhtar

    Nadia Benmokhtar
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1985-.. (age 41)
    Occupations
    association football player
    Biography

    Nadia Benmokhtar is a French-Algerian association footballer and sports manager. She was a semi-professional player, pursuing a sporting career in the French women's Première Ligue.

  25. Bernard Bigot

    Bernard Bigot
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1950-2022 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    officialchemistuniversity teachernuclear physicist
    Biography

    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.

  26. Modesto Montoya

    Modesto Montoya
    Born in
    Peru Flag Peru
    Years
    1949-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    university teachernuclear physicistpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  27. Éric Halphen

    Éric Halphen
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1959-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    magistratewriter
    Biography

    Éric Halphen is a French judge best known as the investigating magistrate in the Parisian low-cost housing scandals of the 1990s.

  28. Lassina Zerbo

    Lassina Zerbo
    Years
    1963-.. (age 63)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1993 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in geophysics
    Occupations
    politiciangeophysicist
    Biography

    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.

  29. Jean-Marie Hullot

    Jean-Marie Hullot
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1954-2019 (aged 65)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1981 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    computer scientistengineerprogrammerphotographer
    Biography

    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 helped to conceive iPhone, though did not play a significant role in its development, and led the iCal and iSync development teams for Mac OS X (2002).

  30. Roberto Battiston

    Roberto Battiston
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1956-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    university teacherexperimental physicistphysicist
    Biography

    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.

  31. Iulia Motoc

    Iulia Motoc
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1967-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    juristlawyerjudgeuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Iulia Antoanella Motoc KSR is a Romanian judge and international law expert, currently a judge of the International Criminal Court. Motoc is the first Romanian judge elected to the International Criminal Court.

  32. Gérard Laumon

    Gérard Laumon
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1952-2025 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Gérard Laumon was a French mathematician working in number theory and the Langlands program.

  33. Alain Fuchs

    Alain Fuchs
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1953-2024 (aged 71)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    university teacherchemist
    Biography

    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.

  34. Jean-Paul Delahaye

    Jean-Paul Delahaye
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1952-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    computer scientistphilosophermathematicianscience communicatorengineer
    Biography

    Jean-Paul Delahaye is a French computer scientist and mathematician.

  35. Aristidis Baltas

    Aristidis Baltas
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1943-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    physicistphilosopheruniversity teacherpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  36. Jean-Yves Le Gall

    Jean-Yves Le Gall
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1959-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    businesspersonengineer
    Biography

    Jean-Yves Le Gall is a French aerospace engineer who worked as governmental official and executive in the French space industry.

  37. Ahmed Djebbar

    Ahmed Djebbar
    Born in
    Algeria Flag Algeria
    Years
    1941-.. (age 85)
    Occupations
    historian of mathematicshistorian of scienceprofesseur des universitésmathematician
    Biography

    Ahmed Djebbar is an academic and the Algerian minister for education in the 1992 government of Belaid Abdessalam.

  38. Leila Schneps

    Leila Schneps
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1961-.. (age 65)
    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
    novelistmathematicianwriter
    Biography

    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.

  39. Mary K. Gaillard

    Mary K. Gaillard
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1939-2025 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    physicistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Mary Katharine Gaillard was an American theoretical physicist, known for her work in particle physics. She was 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.

  40. Taraneh Javanbakht

    Taraneh Javanbakht
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1974-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    photographerliterary criticplaywrightessayisttranslator
    Biography

    Taraneh Javanbakht is an Iranian-Canadian scientist and polymath.

  41. Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond

    Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1940-.. (age 86)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
    Occupations
    physicistphilosopheruniversity teacherscience communicator
    Biography

    Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond is a physicist and essayist.

  42. Hatem Ben Salem

    Hatem Ben Salem
    Born in
    Tunisia Flag Tunisia
    Years
    1956-.. (age 70)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1984 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    diplomatpolitician
    Biography

    Mohamed Hatem Ben Salem is a Tunisian politician. He was the Minister of Education under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

  43. Raphaël Liégeois

    Raphaël Liégeois
    Years
    1988-.. (age 38)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    Studied in 2010-2010
    Occupations
    biomedical engineerballoonistastronaut
    Biography

    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.

  44. Philippe Flajolet

    Philippe Flajolet
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1948-2011 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    university teachercomputer scientistmathematicianresearcherengineer
    Biography

    Philippe Flajolet was a French computer scientist.

  45. Catherine Bréchignac

    Catherine Bréchignac
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1946-.. (age 80)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1977 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    physicistresearcher
    Biography

    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.

  46. Sylvia Serfaty

    Sylvia Serfaty
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1975-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    university teachermathematicianacademic
    Biography

    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.

  47. John H. Hubbard

    John H. Hubbard
    Years
    1945-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    university teachermathematicianinformation scientist
    Biography

    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.

  48. Mohcine Jazouli

    Mohcine Jazouli
    Born in
    Morocco Flag Morocco
    Years
    1967-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Mohcine Jazouli is a Moroccan politician who served from 7 October 2021 to 23 October 2024 as the Delegate-Minister to the Head of Government of Investment, Convergence and the Evaluation of Public Policies.

  49. Constantino Tsallis

    Constantino Tsallis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1943-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    physicistscientist
    Biography

    Constantino Tsallis is a naturalized Brazilian physicist of Greek descent, working in Rio de Janeiro at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Brazil.

  50. Jean-Philippe Uzan

    Jean-Philippe Uzan
    Years
    1969-.. (age 57)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1998 graduated with doctorate in France in cosmology
    Occupations
    astrophysicistcosmologist
    Biography

    Jean-Philippe Uzan is a French cosmologist and directeur de recherche employed by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

  51. Louis-Marie de Blignières

    Louis-Marie de Blignières
    Born in
    Spain Flag Spain
    Years
    1949-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    Catholic priesttheologian
    Biography

    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.

  52. Alexandra Recchia

    Alexandra Recchia
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1988-.. (age 38)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    2011-2013 graduated with master's degree
    Occupations
    karateka
    Biography

    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.

  53. Françoise Brochard-Wyart

    Françoise Brochard-Wyart
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1944-.. (age 82)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1974 graduated with doctorate
    Occupations
    university teachertheoretical physicistphysicist
    Biography

    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.

  54. Denis Serre

    Denis Serre
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1954-.. (age 72)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    1977-1978 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  55. Jean-Jacques Quisquater

    Jean-Jacques Quisquater
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1945-.. (age 81)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1987 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    computer scientistengineercryptographeruniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  56. Sandrine Bélier

    Sandrine Bélier
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1973-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    juristenvironmentalistpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  57. Christine Petit

    Christine Petit
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1948-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    researchergeneticistbiologistprofessor
    Biography

    Christine Petit is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.

  58. Marie-Paule Cani

    Marie-Paule Cani
    Years
    1965-.. (age 61)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    computer scientistresearcher
    Biography

    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 15000 citations.

  59. Fabien Gouttefarde

    Fabien Gouttefarde
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1978-.. (age 48)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
    Occupations
    cadres de la fonction publiquepolitician
    Biography

    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.

  60. Aline Bonami

    Aline Bonami
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    Graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  61. Elisabeth Bouchaud

    Elisabeth Bouchaud
    Born in
    Tunisia Flag Tunisia
    Years
    1961-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    stage actorphysicistwriterplaywrighttheatre manager
    Biography

    Elisabeth Bouchaud is a French physicist, playwright and actress born 1 March 1961. She is a former member of Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), and of Ecole Superieure de Chimie et Physique de la Ville de Paris. Since 2014, she is also the Director of the Théâtre de la Reine Blanche in Paris. In 2019, she opened a theatre in Avignon,. That same year, she also created a drama school, with fr:Florient Azoulay and fr:Xavier Gallais

  62. Yves Laszlo

    Yves Laszlo
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1964-.. (age 62)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    Graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    Yves Laszlo is a French mathematician working in the University of Paris-Sud. He specializes in algebraic geometry.

  63. Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène

    Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1947-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  64. Rama Cont

    Rama Cont
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1972-.. (age 54)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1998 graduated with doctorate in France in mathematics
    Occupations
    authorresearch fellowuniversity teachermathematicianeditor-in-chief
    Biography

    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 for his work on pathwise methods in stochastic analysis and mathematical models of systemic risk. He was awarded the Louis Bachelier Prize by the French Academy of Sciences in 2010.

  65. Fanny Kassel

    Fanny Kassel
    Years
    1983-.. (age 43)
    Occupations
    mathematicianresearcher
    Biography

    Fanny Kassel is a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of Lie groups.

  66. Bernard Chevassus-au-Louis

    Bernard Chevassus-au-Louis
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1949-.. (age 77)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    Graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    biologistecologist
    Biography

    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.

  67. Lenka Zdeborová

    Lenka Zdeborová
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1980-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    computer scientistresearcherphysicistscientist
    Biography

    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).

  68. Bernard Meunier

    Bernard Meunier
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1947-.. (age 79)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1977 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    bioinorganic chemistresearch fellowchemistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Bernard Meunier is a French chemist and academic. He has been a member of the Académie des sciences since 1999.

  69. Pablo Artal Soriano

    Pablo Artal Soriano
    Born in
    Spain Flag Spain
    Years
    1961-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    physicistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  70. Marileen Dogterom

    Marileen Dogterom
    Born in
    Netherlands Flag Netherlands
    Years
    1967-.. (age 59)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1994 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in physics
    Occupations
    university teacherbiophysicistphysicist
    Biography

    Marileen Dogterom is a Dutch biophysicist and professor at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology. She is notable for her research of the cell cytoskeleton. For this research, she was awarded the 2018 Spinoza Prize.

  71. Xiaonan Ma

    Xiaonan Ma
    Years
    1972-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Xiaonan Ma is a Chinese mathematician working in global analysis and local index theory.

  72. Mathilda Twomey

    Mathilda Twomey
    Born in
    Seychelles Flag Seychelles
    Years
    1963-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    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.

  73. Samir Zard

    Samir Zard
    Born in
    Nigeria Flag Nigeria
    Years
    1955-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1983 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    university teacherresearcherorganic chemist
    Biography

    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.

  74. Philippe Michel

    Philippe Michel
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1969-.. (age 57)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1995 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    Philippe Gabriel Michel is a French mathematician who holds the chair in analytic number theory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

  75. Tan Lei

    Tan Lei
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1963-2016 (aged 53)
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    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.

  76. Cornelia Druțu

    Cornelia Druțu
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    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.

  77. Osmar Zaiane

    Osmar Zaiane
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1965-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    computer scientistacademic
    Biography

    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.

  78. Éric Brian

    Éric Brian
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1958-2025 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    historian of sciencesociologist
    Biography

    Éric Brian was a historian of science and a sociologist. He studied 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.

  79. Azra Quraishi

    Azra Quraishi
    Years
    1945-2002 (aged 57)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1976 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    physicistbotanist
    Biography

    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%.

  80. Sihem Amer-Yahia

    Sihem Amer-Yahia
    Born in
    Algeria Flag Algeria
    Years
    1972-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    computer scientistresearcher
    Biography

    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.

  81. Eric Urban

    Eric Urban
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Eric Jean-Paul Urban is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University working in number theory and automorphic forms, particularly Iwasawa theory.

  82. Jean-Daniel Fekete

    Jean-Daniel Fekete
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    computer scientistengineer
    Biography

    Jean-Daniel Fekete is a French computer scientist.

  83. Jean-Louis Viovy

    Jean-Louis Viovy
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1952-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    physicistchemist
    Biography

    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.

  84. Philippe Sautet

    Philippe Sautet
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    20th Century
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1989 graduated with doctorate in France in applied science
    Occupations
    university teacherresearcherchemist
    Biography

    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.

  85. Majed Chergui

    Majed Chergui
    Born in
    Morocco Flag Morocco
    Years
    1956-.. (age 70)
    Enrolled in Paris-Sud University
    In 1981 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    physicistchemist
    Biography

    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.

  86. Habib Tawa

    Habib Tawa
    Born in
    Lebanon Flag Lebanon
    Years
    1945-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    historianmathematicianjournalist
    Biography

    Habib Tawa in Tripoli, Lebanon is a French historian, journalist and mathematician.