Christophe Soulé

Christophe Soulé is a French mathematician, born in 1951, who works in arithmetic geometry. He began his studies in 1970 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and completed his doctorate at the University of Paris in 1979 under the supervision of Max Karoubi and Roger Godement, with a dissertation on the K-theory of rings of integers of number fields and étale cohomology. He was awarded a CNRS Bronze Medal in 1979, the Prix J. Ponti in 1985 and the Ampère prize in 1993, was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw in 1983, and has been a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2001. His publications include the book Lectures on Arakelov Geometry, written with the collaboration of Dan Abramovich, Jean-François Burnol and Jürg Kramer, and, with Henri Gillet, the paper An arithmetic Riemann-Roch theorem in Inventiones Mathematicae.