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Curriculum vitae


Education

1978-1982 : Student at the Ecole normale supérieure de Paris.

1982 : Thèse de troisième cycle (PhD) "Local times and stochastic differential equations" under the supervision of Marc Yor.

1987 : Thèse de Doctorat d'Etat ès sciences mathématiques "Some properties of Brownian motion".


Positions held
1983-1988 : Chargé de Recherches CNRS at the Laboratoire de Probabilités (now LPSM) of University Pierre et Marie Curie.

1988-2006 : Professor at University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI).

1997-2007 : Professor at the Department of mathematics (DMA) of the Ecole normale supérieure de Paris (ENS).

  • Director of mathematical studies at ENS from 1997 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2007.

  • Director of the Magistère MMFAI (mathématiques et informatique) of ENS from 2000 to 2004.

Since 2006 : Professor at University Paris-Sud (Orsay), now University Paris-Saclay.

From May 2017 to April 2023 : Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant GeoBrown.

Honors
Selected invitations
  • Lecturer at the Ecole d'été de probabilités de Saint-Flour 1990.

  • Invited lecturer in the first four World Congresses of the Bernoulli Society (Tachkent 1986, Uppsala 1990, Chapel Hill 1994, Vienna 1996).

  • Invited lecture at the first European Congress of Mathematics, Paris 1992.

  • Nachdiplom lecturer at ETH Zürich in 1997.

  • Invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin 1998.

  • Closing lecture at the Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Statistics, 1998.

  • Invited lecturer at the first Latin-American Congress of Mathematics, Rio 2000.

  • Special Invited Lecture at the European Congress of Statistics, Prague 2002.

  • IMS Medallion Lecture at the Congress Stochastic Processes and Applications, Santa Barbara 2005.

  • Lecturer at the first Cornell Summer School in Probability, 2005.

  • Plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematics, Amsterdam 2008.

  • 2010 Wald Memorial Lectures.

  • Lévy Lecture at the Congress Stochastic Processes and Applications, Oaxaca 2011.

  • Chung Lecture at the Seminar on Stochastic Processes, Lawrence 2012.

  • Plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul 2014.

  • Billingsley lecture, Chicago 2016.

  • Takagi lectures, Kyoto 2018.


Main editorial activities
  • Associate editor of the Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften since 2020.

  • Associate editor of the Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse since 2020.

  • Associate editor of The Annals of Probability from 2012 to 2018.

  • Associate editor of the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences since 2014.

  • Managing editor of Probability Theory and Related Fields (with J. Bertoin) from 2005 to 2010.

  • Associate editor of Probability Theory and Related Fields from 2000 to 2005.

  • Associate editor of the Journal de l'Institut Mathématique de Jussieu from 2007 to 2014.

  • Associate editor of the Annales de l'Institut Fourier from 2003 to 2008.

  • Managing editor of the Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques from 1994 to 2000.

  • Associate editor of the Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques from 1989 to 1994.

  • Associate editor of the Annales Scientifiques de l'Ecole normale supérieure from 1991 to 1997.

  • Associate editor of Astérisque from 1991 to 1997.