Michel Talagrand

Michel Pierre Talagrand (born 15 February 1952) is a French mathematician working in probability theory, functional analysis and mathematical physics. Since 1985, he has been the directeur de recherches at CNRS and a member of the Functional Analysis Team of the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu in Paris. Talagrand was also a faculty member at The Ohio State University for more than fifteen years. Talagrand was elected as correspondent of the Académie des sciences of Paris in March 1997, and then as a full member in November 2004, in the Mathematics section. In 2024, Talagrand received the Abel Prize.