Marc Mézard


Marc Mézard is a French physicist and academic administrator. He is the director of the École normale supérieure. He is the co-author of two books.

Early life

Marc Mézard was born on August 29, 1957. He graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1976 and earned the agrégation in Physics. He earned a PhD in Physics from University Paris 6 in 1980.

Career

Mézard joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique as a researcher in 1981. He was a professor of Physics at the École Polytechnique. In 2001, he joined the Center for Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models at the University of Paris-Sud, and he serves as its director. Since 2012, he has also served as the director of his alma mater, the ENS.
Mézard is the author of 170 academic articles and the co-author of two books. He won the Prize Ampère in 1996, the Humboldt Prize in 2009, and the Lars Onsager Prize in 2016.

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