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Claire Voisin
Claire Voisin in 2009Born 4 March 1962
Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, Île-de-FranceNationality France Fields Mathematics Institutions University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie Alma mater École Normale Supérieure
Paris-Sud 11 UniversityDoctoral advisor Arnaud Beauville Doctoral students Anna Otwinowska
Gianluca Pacienza
Lorenz SchneiderNotable awards Clay research award (2008)
Sophie Germain Prize (2003)
EMS Prize (1992)Claire Voisin (born 4 March 1962) is a French professor of mathematics and director of research at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu at the University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie. She is noted for her work in algebraic geometry—particularly as it pertains to variational Hodge structures and mirror symmetry.
She received the Sophie Germain Prize in 2003 and the Clay Research Award in 2008. She was invited at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians (Zurich) in the section Algebraic Geometry, and she was also invited as a plenary speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, India.[1] She is married to Jean-Michel Coron, who was also a plenary speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians.
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