Born in Paris on 29 May 1957. Died September 3 2016.
Education and professional career
- 1975-1979 : Studies at the École normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm
- 1977 : Agrégation in mathematics
- 1979-1988 : CNRS research fellow at École polytechnique,
- 1985 : State thesis : Centralizers and differentiable conjugation of circle diffeomorphisms
- 1988-1996 : Professor at Université Paris-Sud
- 1996-2016 : Professor at the Collège de France
Scientific and honorary distinctions
- 1984 : CNRS Bronze Medal
- 1985 : IBM Mathematics Prize
- 1987 : Claude-Antoine Peccot Foundation lectureship at Collège de France
- 1988 : SALEM Prize
- 1990 : Guest speaker at the Kyoto International Congress
- 1991 : Member of the Institut Universitaire de France
- 1991 : JAFFE Prize from the French Academy of Sciences
- 1994 : Plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematics, Zurich
- 1994 : Fields Medal
- 1994 : Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- 1994 : Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- 1995 : Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
- 1998 : Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit
- 1998 : Grand Cross of the Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil
- 2000 : Officer of the Order of Merit
- 2004 : Associate Member of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries