Cyril Houdayer

Cyril Houdayer (* 1980 ) is a French mathematician.

Houdayer studied from 2001 at the École normal supérieure , received his doctorate in 2007 from the University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot) with Stefaan Vaes (Sur la classification de certaines algèbres de von Neumann) and was a post-doctoral student until 2009 as a Hedrick Assistant Professor at the university of California, Los Angeles . From 2009 he did research at the École normal supérieure de Lyon, where he completed his habilitation in 2013, and in 2015 he became a professor at the University of Paris-Süd in Orsay .

Houdayer deals with Von Neumann algebras , ergodic theory , geometric group theory, and representation theory of groups.

In 2015 he received the Prix Jacques Herbrand and in 2014 an ERC Starting Grant.

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