Fanny Kassel
Fanny Kassel (born 1984) is a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of Lie groups.
Fanny Kassel | |
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Born | 1984 (age 38–39) |
Nationality | French |
Education | Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
Alma mater | École normale supérieure University of Paris-Sud |
Awards | CNRS Bronze Medal (2015) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Lille University of Science and Technology Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques |
Doctoral advisor | Yves Benoist |
Career
Kassel received her PhD under the direction of Yves Benoist at the University of Paris-Sud in 2009. Her thesis was on "Compact quotients of real or p-adic homogeneous spaces". She then entered the CNRS and worked at the Paul-Painlevé Laboratory of the University of Lille I until 2016, when she joined the IHÉS as detached CNRS researcher.[1]
Honors and awards
In 2015, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal and an ERC starting grant the following year.[2] In 2018, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Rio de Janeiro; her lecture was on "Geometric structures and representations of discrete groups".[3] She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020.[4]
References
- "Fanny Kassel joins IHES as a CNRS Researcher", IHES website (20 September 2016).
- "Médailles d’argent et de bronze 2015", CNRS website (19 February 2015).
- IMU 2018, list of invited speakers Archived 25 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine (section 6).
- MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved 7 June 2021.