CNRS senior scientist (directeur de recherche CNRS)

Institut Elie Cartan de Lorraine, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

News:

• The research project LOUCCOUM (for Large Objects Under Combinatorial Constraints and Outside Uniform Models) has been accepted for funding by the ANR (French National Research Agency).

Some research topics:

• Random permutations, patterns and permutons (see a picture of the Brownian separable permuton);
• Meanders and meandric systems;
• Central limit theorems for sums of weakly dependent variables: I have recently introduced a new tool, weighted dependency graphs, to obtain this kind of results;
• Deviation probabilities, speed of convergence for combinatorial random variables, via mod-Gaussian convergence;
• Algebraic combinatorics, and in particular combinatorics in the symmetric group algebra and its representations (Young diagrams, factorizations in symmetric groups and associated graphs embedded in surfaces, Jucys-Murphy elements) ;
• Symmetric functions, including Jack polynomials, and their connection with map enumeration;

Short CV:

• 2023-now: CNRS senior scientist (directeur de recherche) in IECL, Nancy.
• 2020-2023: CNRS junior scientist (chargé de recherche) in IECL, Nancy. Habilitation defended in Sepember, 2021.
• 2013-2020: Assistant professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Zurich.
• 2013: Cours Peccot in College de France.
• 2009-2013: CNRS junior scientist (chargé de recherche) in LaBRI (University Bordeaux 1).
• 2006-2009: PhD student in LIGM (University Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée).

You can also have a look at my detailed CV (version of May 2024, in French).

Contact:

firstname "dot" lastname "at" univ-lorraine "dot" fr

Valentin Féray, office 221

Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine

Université de Lorraine, Site de Nancy

Boîte postale 70239

F-54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy