Brief CV: (click here for a detailedCV)
Academics
- 2014- : Professor, Université Lyon 1
- 2009- 2014: CNRS Researcher at ENS Lyon.
Habilitation à Diriger des recherches (HDR), in December 2013. - 2005/2009 : PhD thesis at Université Paris-Sud (Orsay) under the supervision of Wendelin Werner: SLE Processes and sensitivity to perturbations of planar critical percolation. Defended in December 2008.
- 2002-2006 : Ecole Nomale Supérieure (Paris)
Research interests
Probability theory, SLE processes, conformal invariance, statistical mechanics, Fourier analysis of Boolean functions, critical and near-critical percolation, minimal spanning tree, random cluster model, coalescing flows, Liouville Quantum Gravity, Gaussian Multiplicative chaos, 3d turbulence, SPDEs, branching processes, Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, Abelian lattice gauge theory and a bit of amenability / RWs on groups.
Distinctions
- 2021 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2020 Junior Member of Institut Universitaire de France
- 2018 Prix Marc Yor
- 2016 Invited speaker (joint sectional talk with Gabor Pete),
7th European Congress of Mathematics, Berlin. - 2015 ERC Starting Grant
- 2014 Plenary speaker, 37th SPA in Buenos Aires
- Prix Peccot 2013, Collège de France
- Rollo-Davidson Prize (together with Gábor Pete), 2011.
- Prix Perrissin-Pirasset de la chancellerie de Paris, 2009.
- Ostrowski Fellowship 2008 (from Oded Schramm, recipient of the Ostrowski prize 2007).
Editorial Activity
- 2021--2023, editor in chief (with Alice Guionnet), Annals of Probability .
- 2015--2021, associate editor, Annals of Probability .
- 2019--, associate editor, Probability and Mathematical Physics (PMP)
- 2015--2021, associate editor, Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu (JIMJ)
- 2019--2021, associate editor, Astérisque (SMF)
PhD students and Postdocs
- Juhan Aru, PhD student (2012--2015). Now assistant professeur at EPFL, Lausanne.
- Alejandro Rivera, PhD student (2015--2018). (Codirection with Damien Gayet). Now postdoc at EPFL, Lausanne.
- Hugo Vanneuville, PhD student (2015--2018). Currently CNRS researcher at Institut Fourier, Grenoble.
- Avelio Sepúlveda, Postdoc (2017--2020). Currently assistant professor at Universidad de Chile.
- Atuk Shekhar, Postdoc (2019--2021). Currently Reader at the TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), Bangalore.
- Paul Dario, Postdoc (2021--2022).
- Diederik van Engelenburg, Postdoc (2023--).
- Romain Panis, Postdoc (2024--).
- Franco Severo, Postdoc (2024--).
- Paul Cahen , (Codirection with Avelio Spevúlveda), PhD student (2024--2027).
- Nathan de Montgolfier , PhD student (2025--2028).