Research interests:

I did work on real algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry, enumerative geometry, random topology and discrete geometry.

Prizes and awards:

• Ernest Déchelle prize 2008 of the French Academy of sciences of Paris.

• Bronze medal 2009 of the CNRS.

• Invited address at the International congress of mathematicians ICM 2010 in sections 4 : Algebraic geometry and 6 : Topology.

• Laureate of a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2010-2015. 

A detailed curriculum vitæ can be found here.


Editorial activities:

I am an editor of Mathematische Annalen and was an editor of the Journal de l'École Polytechnique. 

(Pre)publications and other texts:

Here are:

• my list of publications, on the website Mathscinet.

• my preprints can be downloaded here, on arXiv.

I also wrote:

• my Ph.D. thesis, defended on the 24th of November 2000 at the IRMA of Strasbourg.

• my thesis of "habilitation à diriger des recherches", defended on the 17th of March 2008 at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. 

• a text entitled "Énumération de fractions rationnelles réelles" for the journal Images des mathématiques 2006 of the CNRS.

Lecture notes:

Here are:

• the notes of my course entitled "Topology of random real hypersurfaces" given at Villa de Leyva (Colombia) in July 2014.

• the notes of my course intitled "Surfaces de Riemann" (in French) given at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in 2014-1017.

• the notes of my course intitled "Introduction aux théories homologiques" (in French) given at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in the Fall 2015.

(Thanks to Matthieu Dussaule for having taken the notes of these last two courses).


Past and upcoming conferences:

• Real Algebraic Geometry in Lyon, at the University Lyon 1, France, 16th-27th November 2020 (cancelled).

• Real Aspects of Geometry, at the CIRM of Luminy, France, 31st of October-4th of November 2022.

• Perspectives in Real Algebraic Geometry, at the University Lyon 1, France, 14th-25th of September 2026.