Born on April¹ 1947 in Draguignan (Var).

Education and professional career

• 1966-1970 : Student at the École normale supérieure
• 1970-1974 : Trainee, then attaché, then chargé at CNRS
• 1975 : Cooperation in Kingston, Canada
• 1976-1980 : Senior lecturer, then professor at Paris-VI
• 1981-1984 : Director of Research, CNRS
• 1979- : Professor of the " Léon Motchane " chair at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques de Bures-sur-Yvette
• 1984-2017 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Analysis and Geometry
• 2003- : Professor at Vanderbilt University, USA

Editorial activities

• 1978-1998 : Inventiones Mathematicae
• 1981-1993 : Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
• Journal of Functional Analysis
• Communications in Mathematical Physics
• Journal of Operator Theory
• Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences
• Letters in Mathematical Physics
• K-theory
• Selecta Mathematica
• IHES Mathematical Publications
• Advances in Mathematics
• Journal of Noncommutative Geometry

Conferences

• 1974 : Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vancouver, USA
• 1978 : Plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Helsinki, Finland
• 1986 : Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berkeley, USA

Awards and honors

• 1975 : Aimé Berthé Prize from the French Academy of Sciences
• 1976 : Peccot-Vimont Prize, Collège de France
• 1977 : CNRS Silver Medal
• 1979 : Honorary doctorate from Kingston University, Canada
• 1980 : Prix Ampère from the French Academy of Sciences
• 1980 : Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
• 1980 : Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Sciences
• 1982 : Fields Medal
• 1983 : Member of the French Academy of Sciences
• 1990 : Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1993 : Associate Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences
• 1996 : Foreign Member of the Royal Canadian Academy
• 1997 : Associate Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
• 1997 : Honorary doctorate from the University of Rome " Tor Vergata ", Italy
• 1999 : Honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo, Norway
• 2000 : Clay Prize
• 2001 : Crafoord Prize
• 2004 : CNRS Gold Medal
• 2009 : Honorary doctorate from Odense University, Denmark
• 2010 : Honorary doctorate from the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium