François Loeser

François Loeser
Born 25 August 1958
Mulhouse
Nationality France
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Alma mater École Normale Supérieure
Doctoral advisor Bernard Teissier
Known for Motivic Integration
Notable awards Charles-Louis de Saulces de Freycinet Prize (2007)
CNRS Silver Medal (2011)

François Loeser (born August 25, 1958) is a French mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics at the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris. From 2000 to 2010 he was Professor at École Normale Supérieure. He was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in 2011 and the Charles-Louis de Saulces de Freycinet Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2007. He was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant in 2010 and has been a Plenary Speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics in Amsterdam in 2008.

He is a specialist of algebraic geometry and is best known for his work on motivic integration, part of it in collaboration with Jan Denef.

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