| Ariane Mézard | |
| Field: | Mathematics |
| Work Institutions: | Sorbonne UniversityÉcole normale supérieure (Paris) |
| Alma Mater: | Joseph Fourier UniversityÉcole normale supérieure de Lyon |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Roland Gillard |
| Thesis Title: | Quelques problèmes de déformations en caractéristique mixte |
| Thesis Year: | 1998 |
Ariane Mézard is a French mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Sorbonne University who works in arithmetic geometry.
Mézard studied at the École normale supérieure de Lyon from 1992 to 1996.[1] [2] She received her Ph.D. under the supervision of Roland Gillard at Joseph Fourier University in 1998.[2] She received her habilitation in 2005 during her time at Paris-Sud University.[1]
Mézard worked as a postdoc at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Regensburg University in 1999 and 2000 respectively.[1] [2] She was an assistant professor at Paris-Sud University from 2000 to 2006 and also served in the same role at École normale supérieure from 2005 to 2006.[1] [2] From 2006 to 2012, she was a professor at Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University.[1] [2] Since 2012, Mézard has been a professor of mathematics at Sorbonne University.[1] Since 2016, she has worked as a part-time professor at the École normale supérieure.[1]
From 2010 to 2015, Mézard was a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).[1] [2] At the time of her appointment to the IUF, she was one of only two women out of its fifty mathematician members.[2] In 2018, she received the Fulbright for the Future Prize from the Fulbright Association.[1] [3]