Address

  • Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France. Office phone: 33 (0)1 44 27 85 43. Office number 15/25—315
  • E-mail : pglefloch (at) gmail.com   or  contact (at) philippelefloch.org     or lefloch (at) ljll.math.upmc.fr
  • Blog : http://philippelefloch.org

Personal data

  • Philippe G. LeFloch
  • Director of research (professor level, permanent, research-only position).
  • French citizenship. Married since 1984. Three children: Olivier, Aline, Bruno

Education

  • 1990 “Habilitation à diriger des recherches en mathématiques”, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6).
  • 1988 Ph.D. Thesis in Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau.
  • 1988 “Agrégation de mathématiques” (national teaching diploma).
  • 1988 Master degree in mathematics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
  • 1982–1986 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Saint-Cloud, France.

Employment

  • 2004–today CNRS director of research, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
  • 2000–2001 Visiting professor, Department of Mathematics, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich (September to February)
  • 1999–2004 CNRS director of research, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
  • 1998 Visiting professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison (August to December).
  • 1995–1999 CNRS senior researcher, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
  • 1994–1995 Associate professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
  • 1992–1994 Assistant professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
  • 1990–1992 Courant instructor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  • 1987–1990 CNRS junior researcher, Centre de Mathématiques Apliquées, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau

Honor and grants

  • 2015-2018: Marie Skłodowska- Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN): “Modeling and Computation of Shocks and Interfaces” (ModCompShock)
  • 2014-2018: Scientific excellence award (Prime d’Excellence Scientifique, PES)
  • 2011–2016 Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), research grant entitled Mathematical Methods for General Relativity (MATH-GR)
  • 2012 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Fellowship at Tokyo University
  • 2006–2011 Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), research grant entitled Mathematical Methods for General Relativity (MATH-GR)
  • 2004 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Fellowship at Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • 1995 Faculty Early Career Development award (CAREER), National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • 1993–1995 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) : F49620-94-10215, research grant
  • 1992–1996 National Science Foundation (NSF), research grants DMS 92-09326, DMS 93-96260, and DMS 94-01003

Other professional activities

  • 2009 Co-organizer of an international conference on“Mathematical General Relativity”, Site de Chevaleret, Paris.
  • 2008 Main organizer of the Seminar of General Relativity (April-May) as part of the Special Semester on“Ricci Curvature and Ricci Flow”,Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris.
  • 2008–today Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Differential Equations.
  • 2007–today Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations.
  • 2006–2010 Head of the research group Mathematical Methods for General
  • Relativity (MATH-GR), funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and including a monthly seminar, a visitor and postdoc program, and the organization of an international conference.
  • 2004–today Editor-in-Chief of theJournal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations.
  • 2003 Principal Organizer of a one-semester program at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences (INI), entitledNonlinear Hyperbolic Waves in Phase Dynamics and Astrophysics(January to July).
  • 1994–today  Training of students and postdocs: Six students have defended a Ph.D thesis under my guidance: B. Okutmustur (2009), P. Amorim (2008), B. Boutin (2009), J. Correia (2007), M.-D. Thanh (2003), C. Chalons (2002), F. Coquel (1994). I have also supervised the work of more than 12 postdoc students.

Extended scientific visits

  • 2009 Visiting professor, Centre for Advanced Studies, Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Oslo, for a Special year on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations(March and April).
  • 2008 Visiting researcher, Mittag-Leffler Institute, Stockholm, semester programGeometry, Analysis, and General Relativity(September and november-december).
  • 2008 Visiting researcher, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, Special Semester on Ricci Curvature and Ricci Flow(April to June).
  • 2007 Visiting researcher, Guangzhou University (China), Department of Mathematics (November).
  • 2007 Visiting researcher, Mathematical Science Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, one-semester program onGeometric Evolution Equations and Related Topics(February and March).
  • 2006 Visiting researcher, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bangalore (December).
  • 2005 Visiting researcher, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, semester program “Wave motion” (November).
  • 2005 Visiting professor, Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, semester program onGlobal Methods in General Relativity(August-September).
  • 2004 Visiting professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo (September and October).
  • 2003 Visiting researcher, Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematics, Cambridge (January to July).
  • 1998 Visiting professor, Department of Mathematics, Instituto Supe rior Technico, Lisbon (February to May).
  • 1997 Visiting researcher, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm (September).
  • 1989 Visiting researcher, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis (March and April).