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. Jump up to: 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. Jump up to: 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. Jump up to: 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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