Étienne Ghys

• born in Lille, France, December 29th, 1954.
  
• married, 2 (lovely) children.
  

Education

• ENS St Cloud, 1974-1978.
• Licence Orsay, 1975.
• Maîtrise, Lille, 1976.
• Agrégation, 1977.
• Thèse de troisième cycle, Lille, 1979.
• Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Lille 1986.

Positions

• Attaché de recherche CNRS, 1974-1978 and 1981-1982, URA 751 Lille.
• IMPA Rio de Janeiro, 1979-1981.
• Assistant Professor CUNY, New York, 1982-1983.
  
• Chargé de recherche CNRS, 1983-1988, URA 751 Lille.
• Directeur de recherche CNRS, since 1988, UMR 128 then UMR 5669, ENS Lyon.

Administration

• Former chairman of UMPA (UMR 5669) (1998-2002).
• Member of the hiring committees of ENS Lyon and the University of Paris Sud.
• Member of the Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique since 2006.
• Local head of the ANR project "Symplex" (2006).

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Awards

• Servant Prize of the Académie des Sciences de Paris, 1990.
• Invited speaker in the International Congress of Mathematicians Kyoto, 1990.
• Silver Medal CNRS, 1991.
• Corresponding Member of the Académie des Sciences de Paris, 1994.
• Corresponding Member of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, 2002.
• Member of the Académie des Sciences de Paris, 2005.
• Plenary speaker in the International Congress of Mathematicians Madrid, 2006.