Jean-Pierre Bourguignon


Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician, working in the field of differential geometry.

Biography

Born in Lyon, he studied at École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, graduating in 1969. For his graduate studies he went to Paris Diderot University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1974 under the direction of Marcel Berger.
He was president of the Société Mathématique de France from 1990 to 1992. From 1995 to 1998, he was president of the European Mathematical Society. He was director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques near Paris from 1994 to 2013. Between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2019 he was the President of the European Research Council.

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