Prof. Claire Voisin

Professor Claire Voisin is Professor at Collège de France (Algebraic geometry chair), and member of the Académie des sciences, Paris. She was awarded the Shaw prize in Mathematics, that she shared with J. Kollàr, in 2017 and the CNRS Gold medal, the highest scientific award in France, in 2016. She has been plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. Voisin has been distinguished visiting professor at IAS (Princeton, 2014-2015) and invited Senior fellow of ETH (Zurich 2017). Prof. Voisin is foreign associate of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the National Academy of Sciences. She is recognized for her work on Hodge theory and algebraic cycles. Prof. Voisin is known particularly for her construction of compact Kähler manifolds not homeomorphic to complex projective manifolds, for her proof of the generic Green conjecture on syzygies of canonical curves, and for her contribution to the stable Lüroth problem.