Born on April 1st 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
