Amandine Aftalion
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Amandine Aftalion (born 1973)[1] is a French applied mathematician, known for her research on Bose–Einstein condensates and on the mathematics of footracing. She is a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
Aftalion studied at the École normale supérieure (Paris) from 1992 to 1996, earning her agrégation in mathematics in 1994 and Master of Advanced Studies in numerical analysis in 1995.[2] She defended her doctoral dissertation, Quelques problèmes d'équations aux dérivées partielles elliptiques non linéaires et applications à des modèles en supraconductivité et en combustion, in 1997 at Pierre and Marie Curie University, under the direction of Henri Berestycki.[2][3] In 2002 she earned a habilitation with the thesis Equations aux dérivées partielles elliptiques non linéaires : propriétés qualitatives et modèles en physique des basses températures.[2]
She has been a researcher with CNRS since 1999, and was promoted to director of research in 2008. Since 2010 her position with CNRS has been associated with Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University.[2]
