Former CNRS/CEA research directors and associate professors - IHES

Former CNRS/CEA research directors and associate professors

  • Francis Brown - IHES

    Francis Brown, mathematician

    Former CNRS Researcher at IHES (2012-2015)

    Francis Brown is a Research Fellow at the All Souls College in Oxford University since September 2015. Before that, he was a CNRS Researcher at IHES (2012-2015) and the holder of the Israel Gelfand chair in mathematics (2016-2018).

  • portrait de Cédric Deffayet

    Cédric Deffayet, Physicist

    CNRS Research Director, visitor at IHES from 2013 to 2023

    Cédric Deffayet works on theoretical physics, at the interface between cosmology, gravitation (general relativity and its extensions) and high energy theoretical physics, particularly superstring theory.

  • Directeur de recherche CEA Bertrand Eynard

    Bertrand Eynard, Physicist

    CEA Research Director, visitor at IHES from 2018 to 2021

    Bertrand Eynard is studying theoretical physics and mathematics. He is mainly interested in random matrices, random geometry, integrable systems or enumerative geometry.

  • portrait professeur Christophe Soulé

    Christophe Soulé, Mathematician

    CNRS Research Director at IHES (1986-2016)
    Emeritus CNRS professor since 2017

    Christophe Soulé studies Arakelov theory of arithmetic surfaces.

  • Pierre Vanhove, Physicist

    CEA Research Engineer, visitor at IHES from 2011 to 2015

    His main areas of research are perturbative and non-perturbative string theory, scattering amplitudes in quantum mechanics, and modular/automorphic forms.