Isabelle Gallagher


Isabelle Gallagher is a French mathematician. Her research concerns partial differential equations such as the Navier–Stokes equations, wave equation, and Schrödinger equation, as well as harmonic analysis of the Heisenberg group.

Education and career

Gallagher was born on October 27, 1973, in Cagnes-sur-Mer. She earned her Ph.D. from Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1998. Her dissertation, supervised by Jean-Yves Chemin, concerned fluid dynamics.
She worked at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique and then, in 2004, became a professor at Paris Diderot University.

Recognition

In 2008, the French Academy of Sciences awarded her the Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. She won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2016.