11 Facts About Claire Voisin

Claire Voisin was born on 4 March 1962 and is a French mathematician known for her work in algebraic geometry.

Claire Voisin is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and holds the chair of algebraic geometry at the College de France.

Claire Voisin is noted for her work in algebraic geometry particularly as it pertains to variations of Hodge structures and mirror symmetry, and has written several books on Hodge theory.

In 2002, Voisin proved that the generalization of the Hodge conjecture for compact Kahler varieties is false.

Claire Voisin won the European Mathematical Society Prize in 1992 and the Servant Prize awarded by the Academy of Sciences in 1996.

Claire Voisin received the Sophie Germain Prize in 2003 and the Clay Research Award in 2008 for her disproof of the Kodaira conjecture on deformations of compact Kahler manifolds.

Claire Voisin served on the Mathematical Sciences jury of the Infosys Prize from 2017 to 2019.

Claire Voisin received the Gold medal of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in September 2016.

Claire Voisin was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2021.

Claire Voisin was elected International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.

Claire Voisin is married to the applied mathematician Jean-Michel Coron.