Sophie Morel

Sophie Morel (born 1979) is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. In 2012 she received one of the ten prizes of the European Mathematical Society.

Biography

Sophie Morel studied in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure. In 2005 she finished her Ph.D. at the University of Paris-Sud, under the supervision of Gérard Laumon. Her thesis was a step forward in the Langlands program.^[1]

After her Ph.D., she was a Clay Research Fellow between 2005 and 2011. In December 2009 she became the first woman to be appointed Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.^[2]

She gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".^[3] 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.^[4]

In a 2011 interview, she credited a math magazine bought while in 9th grade as well as summer camps for developing her interest in mathematics^[5] and in a 2012 interview she mentioned being a keen distance runner.^[6]

Publications

• Complexes pondérés des compactifications de Baily-Borel. Le cas des variétés modulaires de Siegel J. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (2008), 23–61
• On the Cohomology of Certain Non-Compact Shimura Varieties Annals of Mathematics Studies 173, Princeton University Press (2010).

References

External links

• Official website
• An Interview with Sophie Morel in the Girls' Angle Bulletin, volume 5, numbers 1 and 2 (October and December, 2011).