Zoé Chatzidakis
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3 April 1955
Zoé Chatzidakis | |
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| Born | Zoé Maria Chatzidakis 3 April 1955 |
| Died | 22 January 2025 (aged 69) Paris, France |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Awards | Leconte Prize (2013) Tarski Lectures (2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Model theory, Algebra |
| Institutions | École normale supérieure |
| Thesis | Model Theory of Profinite Groups (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Angus Macintyre |
Zoé Maria Chatzidakis (3 April 1955 – 22 January 2025) was a French mathematician who worked as a director of research at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France.[1]
Chatzidakis was born on 3 April 1955.[2] She earned her Ph.D. in 1984 from Yale University, under the supervision of Angus Macintyre, with a dissertation on the model theory of profinite groups.[3] She was Senior researcher and team director in Algebra and Geometry in the Département de mathématiques et applications de l'École Normale Supérieure.[4][5]
Her research concerned model theory and difference algebra. She was invited to give the Tarski Lectures in 2020, though the lectures were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
Chatzidakis died on 22 January 2025 in Paris at the age of 69.[2]
