Jean-François Le Gall

Jean-François Le Gall is a French mathematician, born on 15 November 1959, working in areas of probability theory such as Brownian motion, Lévy processes, superprocesses and their connections with partial differential equations, the Brownian snake, random trees, branching processes, stochastic coalescence and random planar maps. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from Pierre and Marie Curie University under the supervision of Marc Yor, and he is professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in December 2013 and was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1986, the Loève Prize in 1997, the Fermat Prize in 2005 and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2019. He supervised at least eleven students, including Wendelin Werner.