Zoé Maria Chatzidakis is a

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who works as a director of research at the

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. Her research concerns model theory and difference algebra. She was invited to give the

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in 2020, though the lectures were postponed due to the

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Education and employment

Chatzidakis earned her Ph.D. in 1984 from

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, under the supervision of Angus Macintyre, with a dissertation on the model theory of profinite groups. She is Senior researcher and team director in

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and

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in the Département de mathématiques et applications de l'

Honors and awards

She was the 2013 winner of the Leconte Prize, and was an

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in 2014. She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020.

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