Sophie Morel

Sophie Morel (born 1979) is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory. She is a CNRS directrice de recherches in mathematics at École normale supérieure de Lyon. In 2012 she received one of the ten prizes of the European Mathematical Society.

Biography In a 2011 interview, Morel credited a math magazine bought while in 9th grade as well as summer camps for developing her interest in mathematics and in a 2012 interview she mentioned being a keen distance runner. She studied in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure. becoming the first woman in mathematics to be tenured there. From 2012 to 2020, she was a professor of mathematics in Princeton University, where she was also the Henry Burchard Fine Professor in 2015. Morel moved to the École Normale supérieure de Lyon as a CNRS directrice de recherches in mathematics in 2020.

Recognition She gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, in the "Number Theory" section. In 2012 she received one of the prestigious European Mathematical Society Prize for young researchers, and in May 2013 she was announced as the winner of the inaugural 2014 AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory.

Selected publications