Bernard Derrida was admitted to the École normale supérieure in 1971. After passing the agrégation in physics in 1974, he obtained his doctorate from Orsay University in 1979. In 1979, he joined the CEA's Theoretical Physics Department in Saclay, before becoming a professor at UPMC and École normale supérieure in 1993. Since 2015, he has held the "Statistical Physics" chair at the Collège de France. His work has focused on the theory of disordered systems, in particular for introducing models with random energies, and on non-equilibrium systems, for a series of exact solutions of exclusion and persistence models. He has also worked on the transition to chaos, the dynamics of complex networks and applications of statistical physics to problems in genetics and neural networks. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 2004 and has received several awards, including the Boltzmann Medal in 2010.
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