Zoé Maria Chatzidakis is a mathematician who works as a director of research at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France.[1] Her research concerns 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.[2]

Zoé Chatzidakis
Alma materYale university
AwardsLeconte Prize (2013) Tarski Lectures (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Model theory, Algebra
InstitutionsÉcole normale supérieure (Paris)
Thesis Model Theory of Profinite Groups  (1984)
Doctoral advisorAngus John Macintyre

Education and employment

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Chatzidakis 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 is Senior researcher and team director in Algebra and Geometry in the Département de mathématiques et applications de l'École Normale Supérieure.[4][5]

Honors and awards

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She was the 2013 winner of the Leconte Prize,[6] and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[7] She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Member directory, ENS/DMA, retrieved 2016-07-02.
  2. ^ "The Tarski Lectures | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley". math.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-02. Update on March 10th 2020: The event has been postponed to next year
  3. ^ Zoé Chatzidakis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  4. ^ "Mathematics at Ecole Normale Supérieure - Algebra and Geometry". www.math.ens.fr. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  5. ^ "Gestion membre". www.math.ens.fr. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  6. ^ Leconte Prize citation, French Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2016-07-02.
  7. ^ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2016-07-02.
  8. ^ MSRI. "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute". www.msri.org. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
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