The eminent French mathematician Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is to become the next President of the European Research Council (ERC) based in Brussels. Bourguignon will take up the role in January 2014.
From 1994 until August 2013 Bourguignon was director of France’s Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies in Bures-sur-Yvette and will take over from Helga Nowotny, who has been ERC President since 2010. The position will also include the responsibilities of secretary-general.
Bourguignon is well known for his contributions to modern differential geometry and he has also held the offices of President of the French Mathematical Society (1990-1992) and the European Mathematical Society (1995-1998). He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the London Mathematical Society in 2005
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