Pierre Louis Lions
Pierre Louis Lions is currently a professor at the Collège de France and Ecole Polytechnique. Graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, he obtained his PhD at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1979.
After starting his career at the French National Scientific Research Centre ("CNRS"),he was appointed professor at Paris-Dauphine University in 1981 and promoted to exceptional class in 1985. He worked as a consultant in Optimal Control, Digital Analysis, Image Processing and Scientific Computation.
Today, he also acts as a consultant in Finance and Risk Management quantitative techniques at BNP Paribas and at CPR, as well as in Modelling and Scientific Computation at EADS Launch Vehicles.
In addition, he has been Chairman of the INRIA Evaluation Commission since 1995,and Chairman of the Scientific Council of EDF and CEA - DAM since 2001.
Mr. Lions has written many articles and organized many conferences, and he is a member of several prestigious scientific societies. He has received many awards, including the Doistau Blutet Foundation Award of the Academy of Science in 1986; the IBM Award in 1987; the Philip Morris Team Award for Science in 1991; the Ampère Award of the Academy of Science in 1992; the Prize for the best article on Mathematical Finance from the French Europlace Institute in 2003; and the Thomson and INIST-CNRS Quotation Award (Mathematics category) in 2004.
He also won the Fields Medal for Mathematics in 1994.
Mr. Lions is a member of Académie des Sciences and Académie des Technologies.
lions@ceremade.dauphine.fr
After starting his career at the French National Scientific Research Centre ("CNRS"),he was appointed professor at Paris-Dauphine University in 1981 and promoted to exceptional class in 1985. He worked as a consultant in Optimal Control, Digital Analysis, Image Processing and Scientific Computation.
Today, he also acts as a consultant in Finance and Risk Management quantitative techniques at BNP Paribas and at CPR, as well as in Modelling and Scientific Computation at EADS Launch Vehicles.
In addition, he has been Chairman of the INRIA Evaluation Commission since 1995,and Chairman of the Scientific Council of EDF and CEA - DAM since 2001.
Mr. Lions has written many articles and organized many conferences, and he is a member of several prestigious scientific societies. He has received many awards, including the Doistau Blutet Foundation Award of the Academy of Science in 1986; the IBM Award in 1987; the Philip Morris Team Award for Science in 1991; the Ampère Award of the Academy of Science in 1992; the Prize for the best article on Mathematical Finance from the French Europlace Institute in 2003; and the Thomson and INIST-CNRS Quotation Award (Mathematics category) in 2004.
He also won the Fields Medal for Mathematics in 1994.
Mr. Lions is a member of Académie des Sciences and Académie des Technologies.
lions@ceremade.dauphine.fr last update March 28, 2011
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