Biography
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician with a particular interest in differential geometry, especially as it relates to partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in Ricci curvature, both in its mathematical aspects and in the role it plays in general relativity.
An alumnus of the École polytechnique and Doctor of Science, he joined the CNRS in 1969. He was seconded to École polytechnique as a full professor from 1986 to 1994, and headed its mathematics center from 1990 to 1994. From 1994 to September 2013, he was Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. He taught part-time at the École Polytechnique from 1994 to 2012. Since January 1, 2014 he has been President of the European Research Council.
From 1990 to 1992 he was President of the Société Mathématique de France. From 1994 to 1998, he was the second President of the European Mathematical Society. From 2007 to 2011, he chaired the CNRS Ethics Committee.
Since 1996 he has been a member of the Academia Europaea, since 2002 of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, and since 2017 of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences.
In 1977 he was awarded the bronze medal of the CNRS and in 1987 the Langevin Prize of the Académie des Sciences. In 1997, he was awarded the Prix du Rayonnement français. He holds honorary doctorates from Keio University in Japan (2008), Nankai University in China (2011) and the University of Edinburgh (2018). He is an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society (2005) and the Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung (2017).
