Fanny Kassel
French mathematician
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Fanny Kassel (born 1983[1]) is a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of Lie groups.
Fanny Kassel | |
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Kassel at Oberwolfach, 2011. | |
| Born | 1983 (age 42–43) |
| Education | Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure University of Paris-Sud |
| Awards | CNRS Bronze Medal (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Lille University of Science and Technology Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques |
| Yves Benoist | |
Education and career
Kassel entered the École normale supérieure in 2003 and received her PhD under the direction of Yves Benoist at the University of Paris-Sud in 2009. Her thesis was on "Compact quotients of real or p-adic homogeneous spaces". She then entered the CNRS and worked at the Paul-Painlevé Laboratory of the University of Lille I until 2016, when she joined the IHÉS as detached CNRS researcher.[2]
Honors and awards
In 2015, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal and an ERC starting grant the following year.[3] In 2018, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Rio de Janeiro; her lecture was on "Geometric structures and representations of discrete groups".[4] She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020.[5] In 2024, she was the recipient of the mathematics medal of the French Academy of Sciences.[6]
