Marc Mézard (born 29 August 1957) is a

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and

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. He was, from 2012 to 2022, the director of the ''

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'' (ENS). He is the co-author of two books.

Early life

Marc Mézard was born on 29 August 1957. He graduated from the ''

'' in 1976 and earned the ''

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'' in Physics. He earned a PhD in Physics from University of Paris 6 in 1980.

Career

Mézard joined the ''

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'' (CNRS) as a researcher in 1981. He was a professor of Physics at the ''

École Polytechnique (, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...

''. In 2001, he joined the Center for Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models at the

University of Paris-Sud Paris-Sud University (), also known as the University of Paris — XI (or as the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, ...

, and he serves as its director. Since 2012 to 2022, he had also served as the director of his alma mater, the ENS. In 2022 he joined the Department of the Computing Sciences at the

Bocconi University Bocconi University or Università Bocconi (formally known in Italian language, Italian as ''Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi'' – Luigi Bocconi Commercial University) is a private university in Milan, Italy. The university is consistently ...

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. Mézard is the author of 170 academic articles and the co-author of two books. He won the

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in 1996, the

Humboldt Prize The Humboldt Research Award (), also known informally as the Humboldt Prize, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of Germany in recognition of ...

in 2009, and the

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in 2016.

Works

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1st 15 chapters of 2008 draft version, available at www.stat.ucla.edu

References

External links

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1957 births Living people Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni École Normale Supérieure alumni Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure Academic staff of École Polytechnique Academic staff of Paris-Sud University French academic administrators People from Aurillac French physicists {{France-physicist-stub