Max Karoubi

Max Karoubi is a French mathematician and topologist who works on K-theory, cyclic homology and noncommutative geometry and who founded the first European Congress of Mathematics. He received his doctorate in mathematics (Doctorat d'État) from the University of Paris in 1967 under the supervision of Henri Cartan and Alexander Grothendieck. In 1973 he became full professor at the University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot, where he is now emeritus professor, and in 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He has supervised twelve doctoral students, including Jean-Louis Loday and Christophe Soulé. His name is attached to the Karoubi conjecture and the Karoubi envelope, and his publications include the 1968 paper on Clifford algebras and K-theory and the book K-theory.