Appointments to Académie des Sciences de Paris

Hugo Duminil-Copin, permanent professor at IHES and ordinary professor at the University of Geneva, and Frank Merle, Chair of Analysis CY Cergy Paris Université – IHES are appointed to the Académie des Sciences de Paris.

This Tuesday, December 12, 2023, two IHES researchers have been elected to the Paris Academy of Sciences.

Hugo Duminil-Copin is a permanent professor at IHES and ordinary professor at the University of Geneva, 2022 Fields Medal laureate, and one of the 12 members of the Presidential Council for Science set up by Emmanuel Macron on December 7, 2023. Hugo Duminil-Copin is a probabilist. His work focuses on the mathematical branch of statistical physics. He uses ideas from probability theory to study the critical behavior of various models on networks, such as the Ising, Potts, the self-avoiding walks and the percolation models.

Frank Merle has made many important and seminal contributions to the qualitative study of solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations coming from Physics. Merle’s work has been pioneering in the sharp analysis of blowup solutions and of the collision of solitons, as well as in the soliton resolution conjecture. His groundbreaking work has been very influential in the field and beyond. Throughout his career, Frank Merle received many distinctions.