Ingrid Daubechies, Belgian and American physicist and mathematician

Doctor Honoris Causa of ENS de Lyon, March 15, 2018 Biography Born in 1954, Ingrid Daubechies grew up and studied in Belgium where, in 1980, she completed a PhD thesis in theoretical physics at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. She worked at the same university until 1987, and then joined the AT&T Bell Labs Mathematical Research Center at Murray Hill, New Jersey, where she worked for seven years. She chose to stay in the United States and began an academic career at Rutgers University where she worked until 1993 before moving to Princeton University where she became the first female Full Professor of Mathematics. She was a member of the Abel Committee from 2004 to 2006 and President of the International Mathematical Union from 2011 to 2014. Since 2010, she has been Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. During her research, she has maintained close ties with the École normale supérieure de Lyon for almost thirty years now. Her first work focused initially on quantum physics, then Ingrid Daubechies continued her research in mathematics, working on engineering applications.