Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

President, European Research Council

• Former Director, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) from 1994 till 2013.
• A mathematician by training, specialized in differential geometry and mathematical aspects of theoretical physics
• Fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Held a Professor position at École polytechnique from 1986 to 2012
• President of the Société Mathématique de France, 1990 to 1992
• President of the European Mathematical Society, 1995 to 1998
• Former member of the Board of the EuroScience organisation (2002-2006)
• Served on EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) committees, 2004 to 2013.
• Received the Prix Paul Langevin in 1987 and the Prix du Rayonnement Français in Mathematical Sciences and Physics from the Académie des Sciences de Paris in 1997.
• He is a foreign member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences.
• Elected honorary member of the London Mathematical Society, 2005
• Secretary, mathematics section of the Academia Europaea.
• Doctor Honoris Causa of Keio University, Japan, 2008
• Doctor Honoris Causa of Nankai University, China, 2011