Clément Mouhot (; born 19 August 1978) is a French mathematician and academic. He is

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of Mathematical Sciences at the

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. His research is primarily in

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and

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(

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Biography

Mouhot obtained his PhD in 2004 under the supervision of

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at the

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. Since 2011, he is Associate editor of ''

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'' and of the ''

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''. Since 2012, he is Co-Editor-in-chief of the ESAIM Proceedings. Since 2014 he is Associate editor of ''

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''. His work "On Landau damping" with Villani (published in 2011) was quoted in the Fields Medal laudation of Villani in 2010. In 2013, his work "Kac's program in kinetic theory" with Mischler was the subject of a Séminaire Bourbaki. Mouhot was an invited speaker at

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in 2018, and at the conference Dynamics, Equations and Applications in

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in 2019. In 2014 he was awarded the

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. and the "Grand Prix Madame Victor Noury" of the French "Académie des sciences". He has won the 2015/2016

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writing on the subject Applied Analysis. In 2018, Mouhot helped organise a letter protesting

Noah Carl Noah Carl is a British sociologist and intelligence researcher. He was investigated and subsequently dismissed from his position as a Toby Jackman Newton Trust Research Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge after over 500 academics signed a l ...

's appointment to a fellowship at St Edmund's College, with Mouhot and other signatories describing Carl's work on genetics and race as pseudoscience.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mouhot, Clement French mathematicians 1978 births Living people Cambridge mathematicians Whitehead Prize winners Fellows of King's College, Cambridge