Sophie Morel
French mathematician (born 1979)
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Sophie Morel (born 1979)[3] is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory. She is a CNRS directrice de recherches in mathematics at École normale supérieure de Lyon. In 2012 she received one of the ten prizes of the European Mathematical Society.
Sophie Morel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1979 (age 46–47) |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure Université Paris-Sud |
| Awards | EMS Prize (2012) AWM-Microsoft Research Prize (2014)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Princeton University Harvard University |
| Gérard Laumon[2] | |
Biography
In a 2011 interview, Morel credited a math magazine bought while in 9th grade as well as summer camps for developing her interest in mathematics[4] and in a 2012 interview she mentioned being a keen distance runner.[5] She studied in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure.[6] In 2005 she finished her Ph.D. at the University of Paris-Sud, under the supervision of Gérard Laumon.[5][6] Her thesis made progress on the Langlands program.[5]
After her Ph.D., she was a Clay Research Fellow between 2005 and 2011. In December 2009 she was appointed as a professor of mathematics at Harvard University,[7] becoming the first woman in mathematics to be tenured there.[8] From 2012 to 2020, she was a professor of mathematics in Princeton University, where she was also the Henry Burchard Fine Professor in 2015.[9] Morel moved to the École Normale supérieure de Lyon as a CNRS directrice de recherches in mathematics in 2020.
Recognition
She gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, in the "Number Theory" section.[10] In 2012 she received one of the prestigious European Mathematical Society Prize for young researchers, and in May 2013 she was announced as the winner of the inaugural 2014 AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory.[11][6]
Selected publications
- Morel, Sophie (2006). "Complexes pondérés sur les compactifications de Baily-Borel: Le cas des variétés de Siegel". Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 21 (1): 23–61. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-06-00538-8.
- Morel, Sophie (2010). On the Cohomology of Certain Non-Compact Shimura Varieties. Annals of Mathematics Studies. Vol. 173. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1400835393.
- Morel, Sophie (2011). "Cohomologie d'intersection des variétés modulaires de Siegel, suite". Compositio Mathematica. 147 (6): 1671–1740. arXiv:1806.09910. doi:10.1112/S0010437X11005409. ISSN 0010-437X.
- Morel, Sophie; Suh, Junecue (2019). "The standard sign conjecture on algebraic cycles: The case of Shimura varieties". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal). 2019 (748): 139–151. arXiv:1408.0461. doi:10.1515/crelle-2016-0048. ISSN 0075-4102.