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Isabelle Gallagher
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Born (1973-10-27) 27 October 1973 (age 50)
Nationality French
Alma mater Pierre and Marie Curie University
Awards Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet
Scientific career
Institutions Paris Diderot University
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Doctoral advisor Jean-Yves Chemin

Isabelle Gallagher (born 27 October 1973) 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.

Recognition

In 2008, the French Academy of Sciences awarded her the Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. She won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2016.

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