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Fanny Kassel
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Kassel at Oberwolfach, 2011.
Born 1983 (age 40–41)
Nationality French
Education Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma mater École normale supérieure
University of Paris-Sud
Awards CNRS Bronze Medal (2015)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Lille University of Science and Technology
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Doctoral advisor Yves Benoist

Fanny Kassel (born 1983) is a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of Lie groups.

Career

Kassel received her PhD under the direction of Yves Benoist at the University of Paris-Sud in 2009. Her thesis was on "Compact quotients of real or p-adic homogeneous spaces". She then entered the CNRS and worked at the Paul-Painlevé Laboratory of the University of Lille I until 2016, when she joined the IHÉS as detached CNRS researcher.

Honors and awards

In 2015, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal and an ERC starting grant the following year. In 2018, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Rio de Janeiro; her lecture was on "Geometric structures and representations of discrete groups". She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020. In 2024, she was the recipient of the mathematics medal of the French Academy of Sciences.

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