Viviane Baladi (born 23 May 1963) is a mathematician who works as a director of research at the

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(CNRS) in France. Originally Swiss, she has become a naturalized citizen of France.. Her research concerns

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Education and career

Baladi earned master's degrees in mathematics and computer science in 1986 from the

University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary. It remained focused on theology until the 17th centu ...

. She stayed in Geneva for her doctoral studies, finishing a Ph.D. in 1989 under the supervision of

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, with a dissertation concerning the zeta functions of dynamical systems. She worked at CNRS beginning in 1990, with a leave of absence from 1993 to 1999 when she taught at

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and the University of Geneva. She also spent a year as a professor at the

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in 2012–2013.

Books

She is the author of the book ''Positive Transfer Operators and Decay of Correlation'' (Advanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics 16, World Scientific, 2000) and of ''Dynamical Zeta Functions and Dynamical Determinants for Hyperbolic Maps: A Functional Approach'' (

Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete ''Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete''/''A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics'' is a series of scholarly monographs published by Springer Science+Business Media. The title literally means "Results in mathematics and related area ...

68, Springer, 2018).

Recognition

She was an

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in 2014, speaking in the section on "Dynamical Systems and Ordinary Differential Equations". She became a member of the

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in 2018. Baladi was awarded the

CNRS Silver Medal The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the French National Centre for Scientific Research The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherch ...

in 2019.

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