Jean-Bernard Zuber


Jean-Bernard Zuber is a French theoretical physicist.

Biography

Zuber studied at the École polytechnique from 1966 to 1968 and then as a CNRS researcher at the theoretical physics department of the Nuclear Research Center in Saclay. In 1974, he received his doctorate from Jean Zinn-Justin at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay. From 1975 to 2004 he was in the same capacity as an engineer of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Saclay and at the same time Professor at the Paris Diderot University. From 1995 to 2000 he was director of the CNRS theoretical physics department. Since 2004 he has been a professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, and since 2005 he has been director of the Fédération de Recherches Interactions Fondamentales.
Zuber is author of a standard work on quantum field theory with Claude Itzykson, with whom he often collaborated. In addition to applications of QFT in elementary particle physics, it also deals with statistical mechanics, for example the Ising model, and in particular with conformal field theories, random matrices and matrix integrals including applications in combinatorics and nodal theory.

Awards

In 1989 he received the Prix Dostaut-Blutet of the French Academy of Sciences and in 1991 the Prix Paul Langevin of the French Physical Society. Since 1999 he has been a Chevalier des Palmes Academiques.

Citations

Selected publications