Emmanuel Breuillard

Emmanuel Breuillard is a Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Previously, he held positions as Sadleirian Professor at the University of Cambridge (2017-2021), Professor at Université Paris-Sud (2008-2017), and Associate Hadamard Professor at École Polytechnique (2006-2008). His academic journey includes a PhD from Université Paris-Sud and Yale University, supervised by Frédéric Paulin and Gregory Margulis, and a Master in Mathematics from Cambridge.

• PhD: Université Paris-Sud (2004), supervised by Frédéric Paulin; Yale University, supervised by Gregory Margulis
• Master: University of Cambridge (2000)
• Ecole Normale Superieure (1997-1999)

His research spans Combinatorics, Geometric Group Theory, Ergodic Theory, and Number Theory, focusing on approximate groups, expansion in finite simple groups, and Diophantine geometry. His recent work analyzes Elekes-Szabo problems in projective geometries.

He has authored 50+ publications in prestigious journals, addressing topics like random polynomials, C*-simplicity, and uniform independence in linear groups.

• Fellow of the Royal Society (2024)
• ERC Consolidator Grant (2014-2019)
• Prix Charles-Louis de Freycinet (2013)
• European Mathematical Society Prize (2012)
• ERC Starting Grant (2008-2013)
• Cours Péccot, Collège de France (2006)