Biography:Marc Mézard

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Marc Mézard
Director of the École normale supérieure
In office
19 April 2012 – 15 March 2022
Preceded byMonique Canto-Sperber
Succeeded byFrédéric Woms
Personal details
Born (1957-08-29) 29 August 1957 (age 66)
Aurillac, France
NationalityFrance
EducationLycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure
Known forEuclidean random matrix
Cavity method
Random energy model
AwardsAmpère Prize (1996)
Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize (2009)
Lars Onsager Prize (2016)
Racah Lecture (2017)
Three Physicists Prize (2021)

Marc Mézard (born 29 August 1957) is a French physicist and academic administrator. He was, from 2012 to 2022, the director of the École normale supérieure (ENS). He is the co-author of two books.

Early life

Marc Mézard was born on 29 August 1957.[1] He graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1976 and earned the agrégation in Physics.[2] He earned a PhD in Physics from University of Paris 6 in 1980.[3][4]

Career

Mézard joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) as a researcher in 1981.[2][4] He was a professor of Physics at the École Polytechnique.[1] In 2001, he joined the Center for Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models at the University of Paris-Sud, and he serves as its director.[2] Since 2012 to 2022, he had also served as the director of his alma mater, the ENS.[2] In 2022 he joined the Department of the Computing Sciences at the Bocconi University in Milan.[5]

Mézard is the author of 170 academic articles and the co-author of two books.[2] He won the Prize Ampère in 1996,[1] the Humboldt Prize in 2009,[6] and the Lars Onsager Prize in 2016.[4]

Works

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "BIOGRAPHIE DE MARC MÉZARD". http://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/personnalites/mezard-marc-824.html. Retrieved October 29, 2016. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Qui sommes-nous? Marc Mézard, Vice-Président de l'Institut". École Normale Supérieure. http://institutens.fr/marc-mezard/. Retrieved October 29, 2016. 
  3. Mézard, Marc (1980). Test de QCD et Observables Inclusives dans la Diffusion Inelastique de Neutrinos (Thesis). Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "2016 Lars Onsager Prize Recipient". https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Mezard&first_nm=Marc&year=2016. Retrieved October 29, 2016. 
  5. "Sei nuovi docenti allargano gli orizzonti della Bocconi" (in it). https://www.knowledge.unibocconi.it/notizia.php?idArt=23791. 
  6. "Lauréats français du prix Humboldt 2009". January 29, 2010. http://www.cnrs.fr/inp/spip.php?article284. Retrieved October 29, 2016. 

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