Nicolas Monod is a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and known for work on bounded cohomology, ergodic theory, geometry ( CAT(0) spaces), locally compact groups and amenability. [1]
He was born in Montreux, Switzerland. [2] He obtained his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2001 with thesis "Continuous Bounded Cohomology of Locally Compact Groups" written under the direction of Marc Burger. [3] [4]
Monod is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [5] He has been awarded the Gauss Lectureship [6] and the Berwick Prize, [7] and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006. [8] He was one of the youngest Advanced Investigator awardees in the history of the European Research Council. [9]
Monod was the president of the Swiss Mathematical Society from 2014 to 2015 [10] and was the director of the Bernoulli Center at EPFL from 2014 to 2021. [1]