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Kassel at Oberwolfach, 2011.
Born	1984 (age 39–40)
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 1984) is a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of Lie groups.

Career

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.

Honors and awards

In 2015, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal and an ERC starting grant the following year. 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". She was named MSRI Chern Professor for Fall 2020.

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