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Yannick Privat is a Professor at the University of Lorraine, affiliated with the Nancy School of Mines and the Élie Cartan Institute of Lorraine (IECL). He leads the Shape Optimization and Control of PDEs research group and is a member of INRIA's Sphinx team. His academic career spans institutions including University of Strasbourg and CNRS.
Prior to his current role, Privat earned his Doctorate in Mathematics (2008) at the Élie Cartan Institute of Lorraine, supervised by Prof. Antoine Henrot, and completed a post-doctorate at the Orléans Mathematics Laboratory and the Jean Kuntzmann Laboratory (2008-2009).
His research focuses on shape and topology optimization, control of partial differential equations, and applications to biology, with secondary interests in fluid mechanics, ferromagnetism, and quantum computing. His work bridges theoretical analysis with applied projects like mosquito release strategies for disease control and organ registration in augmented surgery.
Recent publications highlight interdisciplinary trends in quantum control (2025), acoustic room reconstruction (2025), and ferromagnetic modeling (2024). These works often integrate numerical methods, geometric constraints, and biological systems.
Privat has received prestigious recognition, including the Blaise Pascal Prize (2023) and Junior Membership in the University Institute of France (2021-2026). He serves on editorial boards for journals like Computational and Applied Mathematics and Evolution Equations and Control Theory.
As an advisor, he has mentored 21 doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, including Ludovic Godard-Cadillac and Guillaume Ferrière, across topics ranging from epidemic control to stellarator design. His methodological contributions include INRIA's Sphinx project and the ANR STOIQUES consortium for shape optimization challenges.
