Pierre Degond

Pierre Degond is a Senior Researcher in Applied Mathematics at the CNRS, affiliated with the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse at Université Paul Sabatier, France. He also serves as a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London's Department of Mathematics. His roles include affiliations with multiple research institutes, including the CNRS-Imperial Abraham de Moivre UMI and the CFM-Imperial Institute of Quantitative Finance.

Educations:

• Trained at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
• Junior Researcher at École Polytechnique (1985).
• Full Professor at École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (1990–1993).

Research Interests: Focuses on collective dynamics, decision-making, and self-organization in complex systems from biology and social sciences. Combines analysis, asymptotic theory, and multiscale numerical techniques. Earlier work included plasma physics, rarefied gas dynamics, and semiconductor modeling.

Awards:

• Jacques-Louis Lions Prize 2013 (French Academy of Sciences).
• Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2014–2018).
• Invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM).

Advising & Grants: No specific students or grants detailed in the text, though his research spans interdisciplinary collaborations. Affiliated with networks like the Physics of Life and Cancer Technology Network.

Labs/Teams: Leads the Applied Math group at CNRS-Toulouse and collaborates with Imperial College’s Mathematics Department through his visiting role.