Paul Seymour, British mathematician

Doctor Honoris causa of ENS de Lyon, June 23, 2022 Paul Seymour is currently a professor of mathematics at Princeton University in the United States. He studied at Oxford University, where in 1975 he defended a thesis in mathematics - Matroids, hypergraphs and the max-flow min-cut theorem - under the supervision of Aubrey William Ingleton. From 1974 to 1976 he was a College Research Fellow at the University College of Swansea, then a Junior Research Fellow from 1976 to 1980 at Merton College, Oxford, and in 1978-1979 at the University of Waterloo. He became an Associate and then a Full professor at Ohio State University in Columbus between 1980 and 1983 and initiated a fruitful collaboration with Neil Robertson that continued for many years. From 1983 to 1996, he worked at Bellcore in Morristown. In parallel, he was Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University from 1984 to 1987 and at the University of Waterloo from 1988 to 1993. He became a Professor at Princeton University in 1996 and is also editor-in-chief, with Carsten Thomassen, from the Journal of Graph Theory.