Nicolas Monod

Nicolas Monod is a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and known for work on bounded cohomology, ergodic theory, geometry (CAT(0) spaces), locally compact groups and amenability.[1]

Monod at Oberwolfach in 2014

He was born in Montreux, Switzerland.[2] He obtained his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2001 with thesis "Continuous Bounded Cohomology of Locally Compact Groups" written under the direction of Marc Burger.[3]

Career

Monod is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4] He has been awarded the Gauss Lectureship and the Berwick Prize, and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006.[5] He was one of the youngest Advanced Investigator awardees in the history of the European Research Council.[6]

Monod was the president of the Swiss Mathematical Society from 2014 to 2015[7] and is the director of the Bernoulli Center at EPFL.

References
  1. "People - EGG". egg.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
  2. "Nicolas Monod | short bio". egg.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
  3. Nicolas Monod at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-11-16.
  5. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2017-11-16.
  6. “ERC Advanced” at only 36 years of age, retrieved 2018-06-24.
  7. Society, The Swiss Mathematical. "Organisation » Past Presidents | The Swiss Mathematical Society". www.math.ch. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
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