Professor

Université Grenoble Alpes

CURRICULUM VITAE
G. Besson
BESSON G erard
4, rue Mar echal Dode, 38000 Grenoble, France.
O ce tel : +33 476514851
Born on december 13th, 1955.
Married, 3 children.
Ecole Normale Sup erieure de St Cloud, 1974-79.
Agr egation, Mathematics, July 1977.
PhD Thesis (Th ese de 3 eme cycle), July 1979
My advisor was Marcel Berger and the title : \Sur la multiplicit e de la
premi ere valeur propre des surfaces riemanniennes” .
Military Service, August 1979 – November 1980.
Research Fellow at the  Ecole Polytechnique, March 15th, 1981 –
September 14th, 1981.
Hired at C.N.R.S. as Attach e de Recherche September 15th, 1981.
Position at Institut Fourier de Grenoble, Universit e Grenoble Alpes.
Promoted Charg e de Recherche, 1st class, September 1985.
Visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadel-
phie). Acadamic year 1985-86.
Th ese d’Etat, Habilitation defended on July 2nd, 1987.
Courses at  Ecole Nationale des Techniques Avanc ees (Paris). In
this ingeneering school I gave several courses on the study of the di eomor-
phisms of the circle.
Professor at  Ecole Polytechnique from September 1st, 1993 until
August 31st, 2006. This is a temporary position which I held in complement
of my position at C.N.R.S in Grenoble.
Promoted Directeur de Recherches, C.N.R.S. 2nd class, October
1996.
Promoted Directeur de Recherches, C.N.R.S. 1st class, October
2005.
Alexandre Johannid es prize of the (french) Academy of Sciences,
2006.
Support from the Clay Institute My collaborators and myself wrote
book on Perelman’s works, 2009.
Chairman of the Institut Fourier from January 1st, 2011 till December
31st, 2015.
Promoted Directeur de Recherches CNRS de classe exception-
nelle, 1er  echelon, October 2011.
European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for the pro-
gram “Geometry and Topology of Open Manifolds”, February 2013
– January 2018.
Promoted Directeur de Recherches CNRS de classe exception-
nelle, 2 eme  echelon, October 2016.