Vincent Calvez awarded the European Mathematical Society Prize

Vincent Calvez , chargé de recherche CNRS at l'Unité de mathématiques pures et appliquées ( UMPA ) and member of the Inria  NuMed project team, is one of the ten recipients of the 2016 European Mathematical Society ( EMS ) prizes. These prizes, which are given every four years to mathematicians under 35 years of age who are from or who work in Europe, were announced and awarded at the opening of the 7th European Congress of Mathematics which took place in Berlin from July 18-22, 2016. Previous recipients include Wendelin Werner, Cédric Villani, and Artur Avila, who all went on to win the Fields medal, considered to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics. Vincent Calvez, who was born in 1981, works in the field of mathematics applied to biology. He completed interdisciplinary coursework at l'École normale supérieure, obtained the agrégation de mathématiques in 2005, and completed a thesis under the direction of Benoît Perthame in 2007. Since 2008, he has served as chargé de recherche CNRS at UMPA (CNRS/ENS de Lyon). In 2014 he received the 2014 CNRS bronze medal for his research.