| Marc Mézard | |
| Office: | Director of the École normale supérieure |
| Term Start: | 19 April 2012 |
| Term End: | 15 March 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Monique Canto-Sperber |
| Birth Date: | 29 August 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Aurillac, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Education: | Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
| Alma Mater: | École normale supérieure |
| Succeeded: | Frédéric Woms |
| Known For: | Euclidean random matrix Cavity method Random energy model |
Marc Mézard (born 29 August 1957) is a French physicist and academic administrator. He was, from 2012 to 2022, the director of the École normale supérieure (ENS). He is the co-author of two books.
Marc Mézard was born on 29 August 1957.[1] He graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1976 and earned the agrégation in Physics.[2] He earned a PhD in Physics from University of Paris 6 in 1980.[3] [4]
Mézard joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) as a researcher in 1981.[2] [4] He was a professor of Physics at the École Polytechnique.[1] In 2001, he joined the Center for Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models at the University of Paris-Sud, and he serves as its director.[2] Since 2012 to 2022, he had also served as the director of his alma mater, the ENS.[2] In 2022 he joined the Department of the Computing Sciences at the Bocconi University in Milan.[5]
Mézard is the author of 170 academic articles and the co-author of two books.[2] He won the Prize Ampère in 1996,[1] the Humboldt Prize in 2009,[6] and the Lars Onsager Prize in 2016.[4]