Isabelle Gallagher


Isabelle Gallagher is a French mathematician. Her research concerns partial differential equations such as the Navier–Stokes equations, the wave equation, and the Schrödinger equation, as well as harmonic analysis of the Heisenberg group.

Education and career

Gallagher was born on 27 October 1973, in Cagnes-sur-Mer. She earned her PhD from Pierre and [Marie Curie University] in 1998. Her dissertation, supervised by Jean-Yves Chemin, concerned fluid dynamics.
She worked at the French Centre [national de la recherche scientifique] and then, in 2004, became a professor at Paris Diderot University.
She was elected president of the Société mathématique de France in june 2024.

Recognition

In 2008, the French Academy of Sciences awarded her the Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet. She was an list of [International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers|invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians] in 2014. She won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2016.