Jean Bertoin

Jean Bertoin (born 25 May 1961) is a French mathematician. He is professor at the University of Zurich since 2011.

Early life and education Bertoin was born in Lyon and completed his undergraduate studies at the École Normale Supérieure of St Cloud. He received his doctorate from University of Paris VI in 1987, having been advised by Marc Yor.

Career Bertoin is a specialist in probability theory. His research deals with Lévy processes, Brownian motion, branching processes, random fragmentation, and coalescence processes.

Bertoin has received numerous awards, including the CNRS Bronze Medal (1992), the Rollo Davidson Prize (1996), and the Thérèse Gautier Prize (2015). He was an invited speaker at the ICM (2002) and ECM (2012), and elected a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2011. Random fragmentation and coagulation processes, Cambridge University Press 2006. Subordinators: Examples and Applications, in: Jean Bertoin, Fabio Martinelli, Yuval Peres, Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics, Ecole d’Eté de Probailités de Saint-Flour XXVII - 1997, Lectures Notes in Mathematics 1717, Springer 1999, pp. 1–91. with Jean-François Le Gall: "The Bolthausen–Sznitman coalescent and the genealogy of continuous-state branching processes." Probability theory and related fields 117, no. 2 (2000): 249–266.

with Marc Yor: "Exponential functionals of Lévy processes." Probability Surveys 2 (2005): 191–212.