Fanny Kassel

Fanny Kassel
Kassel at Oberwolfach, 2011.
Born	1983 (age 41–42)
Nationality	French
Education	Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma mater	École normale supérieure University of Paris-Sud
Awards	CNRS Bronze Medal (2015)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Lille University of Science and Technology Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Doctoral advisor	Yves Benoist

Fanny Kassel (born 1983^[1]) is a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of Lie groups.

Kassel received her PhD under the direction of Yves Benoist at the University of Paris-Sud in 2009. Her thesis was on "Compact quotients of real or p-adic homogeneous spaces". She then entered the CNRS and worked at the Paul-Painlevé Laboratory of the University of Lille I until 2016, when she joined the IHÉS as detached CNRS researcher.^[2]

In 2015, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal and an ERC starting grant the following year.^[3] In 2018, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Rio de Janeiro; her lecture was on "Geometric structures and representations of discrete groups".^[4] She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020.^[5] In 2024, she was the recipient of the mathematics medal of the French Academy of Sciences.^[6]

• Personal page on IHES website.
• Fanny Kassel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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