General Information
Alain Connes was born on April 1st, 1947 in Draguignan, France.
Studies
Alain Connes studied at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, from 1966 to 1970.
He got his thesis in 1973 at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University, Paris, France.
Academic Career
- Research Fellow, CNRS, France (1970–1974)
- Visiting Research Fellow, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1975)
- Associate Professor and Professor, University of Paris-VI, France (1976–1980)
- Professor, IHES, France, Léon Motchane Chair (since 1979)
- Director of Research, CNRS, France (1981–1984)
- Professor, Collège de France, Chair of Analysis and Geometry (1984–2017)
- Professor, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA (2003–2011)
- Professor, Ohio State University, USA (2012–2020)
Awards
- Aimé Berthé Prize of the French Academy of Sciences (1975)
- Peccot-Vimont Prize of the Collège de France (1976)
- CNRS Silver Medal (1977)
- Ampère Prize of the French Academy of Sciences (1980)
- Fields Medal (1982)
- Clay Research Award (2000)
- Crafoord Prize (2001) (announcement)
- CNRS Gold Medal (2004) (press release)
Honors
- Invited address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Vancouver, Washington, USA (1974)
- Invited plenary address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Helsinki, Finland (1978)
- Invited address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Berkeley, California, USA (1986)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1979)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy (1997)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Oslo, Norway (1999)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark (2009)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Free University of Brussels, Belgium (2010)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (2017)
- Foreign Associate Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences (1980)
- Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Sciences (1980)
- Member of the French Academy of Sciences (1983)
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1990)
- Foreign Associate Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science (1993)
- Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1996)
- Foreign Associate Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (1997)
- Foreign Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003)
- Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Science of Belgium (2016)
Editor quondam
- Journal of Functional Analysis
- Inventiones Mathematicae (1978–1998)
- Communications in Mathematical Physics
- Journal of Operator Theory
- Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (1981–1993)
- Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences
- Letters in Mathematical Physics
- Journal of K-theory
- Selecta Mathematica
- Publications Mathématiques de l’IHES
- Advances in Mathematics
- Journal of Noncommutative Geometry