Sylvie BENZONI-GAVAGE

Institut Camille Jordan DirectorICJ

Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage was trained at the "Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint Cloud", and holds a doctoral degree in mathematics (1991). She was deputy director (2011-2015) and is now head of the Camille Jordan lnstitute, a research lab gathering about 200 mathematicians from Lyon 1 and Saint-Etienne universities and from the engineering schools Centrale Lyon and INSA Lyon. She started her academie career as a CNRS researcher, and was hired in 2003 as a professorat Lyon 1 University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate mathematics. Her main field of research is partial differential equations, with applications to fluid and other continuous media modeling. She belongs to various editorial boards and local, national, and international advisory or assessment committees.