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
