Colette Guillopé

Colette Guillopé is a French mathematician specializing in partial differential equations and fluid mechanics.[1] She is a professor at Paris 12 Val de Marne University,[2] where she is also the gender officer for the university.[3]

Guillopé's parents were both professors. She studied at the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses, earned a diplôme d'études approfondies and third-cycle doctorate, and began working at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in 1977.[1] She completed a thèse d'état in 1983 from the University of Paris-Sud under the supervision of Roger Temam.[4]

She was a founding member of L'association femmes et mathématiques in 1987,[1] and was its president from 1996 to 1998. She also led the association femmes & sciences from 2004 to 2008. In 2016 she became an officer in the Legion of Honour after already being a knight in the Legion.[3]

She was president of French women mathematicians.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Huguenin, Chloé (March 10, 2016), "Colette Guillopé, Number Woman", Science Actualités (in French)
  2. ↑ Member profile, Paris 12 University, retrieved 2017-08-03.
  3. 1 2 colette guillopé, officer of the legion of honour, European Women in Mathematics, January 1, 2016, retrieved 2017-08-03.
  4. ↑ Colette Guillopé at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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