Raphael Rouquier

Raphaël Rouquier (born December 9, 1969 in Étampes ) is a French mathematician who studies algebra .

He is a Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Magdalene College .

From 1988 Rouquier studied at the École normal supérieure in Paris. In 1992 he received his doctorate from Michel Broué at the University of Paris VII ( Isotypies dans les groupes sporadiques ). Before that he spent a year at Cambridge University with John G. Thompson . From 1992 he conducted research for the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), where he became research director in 2003, and completed his habilitation in 1999. He was professor at the University of Paris VII, from 2005 at the University of Leeds and has been at the university since 2007 Oxford.

He deals with homological algebra , complex reflection groups and “higher” representation theory, for example of Lie groups, finite-dimensional algebras and derived categories.

In 2006 he received the Whitehead Prize and in 2009 the Adams Prize . In 2009 he received the Prix ​​Élie Cartan from the Académie des Sciences . In 2006 he was a guest speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( Derived equivalences and finite dimensional algebras ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Web links

• Homepage in Oxford

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project