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Marc Mézard (born 29 August 1957) is a French physicist and academic administrator. He was, from 2012 to 2022, the director of the École normale supérieure (ENS). He is the co-author of two books.

Early life

Marc Mézard was born on 29 August 1957.[1] He graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1976 and earned the agrégation in Physics.[2] He earned a PhD in Physics from University of Paris 6 in 1980.[3][4]

Career

Mézard joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) as a researcher in 1981.[2][4] He was a professor of Physics at the École Polytechnique.[1] In 2001, he joined the Center for Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models at the University of Paris-Sud, and he serves as its director.[2] Since 2012 to 2022, he had also served as the director of his alma mater, the ENS.[2] In 2022 he joined the Department of the Computing Sciences at the Bocconi University in Milan.[5]

Mézard is the author of 170 academic articles and the co-author of two books.[2] He won the Prize Ampère in 1996,[1] the Humboldt Prize in 2009,[6] and the Lars Onsager Prize in 2016.[4]

Works

References

  1. ^ a b c "BIOGRAPHIE DE MARC MÉZARD". letudiant.fr. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Qui sommes-nous? Marc Mézard, Vice-Président de l'Institut". Institut de l'École Normale Supérieure. École Normale Supérieure. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  3. ^ Mézard, Marc (1980). Test de QCD et Observables Inclusives dans la Diffusion Inelastique de Neutrinos (Thesis). Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
  4. ^ a b c "2016 Lars Onsager Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  5. ^ "Sei nuovi docenti allargano gli orizzonti della Bocconi". knowledge.unibocconi.it (in Italian).
  6. ^ "Lauréats français du prix Humboldt 2009". CNRS. January 29, 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2016.

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