Zoé Chatzidakis

Zoé Maria Chatzidakis was a French mathematician who worked as a director of research at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France.

Life and career

Chatzidakis was born on 3 April 1955. She earned her Ph.D. in 1984 from Yale University, under the supervision of Angus Macintyre, with a dissertation on the model theory of profinite groups. She was Senior researcher and team director in Algebra and Geometry in the Département de mathématiques et applications de l'École Normale Supérieure.
Her research concerned model theory and difference algebra. She was invited to give the Tarski Lectures in 2020, though the lectures were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chatzidakis died on 22 January 2025 in Paris at the age of 69.

Honours and awards

Chatzidakis was the 2013 winner of the Leconte Prize, and was an list of [International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers|invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians] in 2014. She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020.