Eric Cancès

Eric Cancès is a Professor at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and affiliated with INRIA Paris as part of the Molecular and Multiscale Modeling team. His research focuses on mathematical analysis of electronic structure models for quantum chemistry and materials science, algorithms for electronic structure calculations, numerical analysis of eigenvalue problems, implicit solvent models, and molecular dynamics. He has made significant contributions to the development of continuum solvation models, multiscale methods, and computational frameworks for quantum chemistry.

Research Interests

• Mathematical foundations of quantum chemistry
• Algorithmic development for electronic structure
• Implicit solvent models and continuum electrostatics
• Multiscale and domain decomposition techniques
• Greedy algorithms for high-dimensional problems

Scientific Awards

• Le Rivot prize (French Academy of Sciences, 1992)
• Best PhD award (Ecole des Ponts, 1998)
• Blaise Pascal prize (SMAI and French Academy of Sciences, 2009)
• Ordway visiting professor (University of Minnesota, 2013-2014)
• Invited lecturer at ICM (2014)

Publications span over two decades, addressing Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham models, quantum Monte Carlo methods, domain decomposition for solvation models, and multiscale approaches. His work emphasizes mathematical rigor combined with computational efficiency, with recent studies on perturbation methods, polarization energy calculations, and embedded corrector problems for homogenization.