Gerard Ben Arous

Gérard Ben Arous
Gérard Ben Arous in 2015.
Born	(1957-06-26) 26 June 1957 (age 59)
Nationality	French
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	New York University
Alma mater	University of Paris VII
Doctoral advisor	Robert Azencott
Doctoral students	Antonio Auffinger Ivan Corwin Alice Guionnet Houman Owhadi Sandrine Péché
Notable awards	Rollo Davidson Prize (1993)

Gérard Ben Arous (born 26 June 1957) is a French mathematician, specializing in and its applications to mathematical physics. He currently serves as the director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.

Ben Arous studied at École normale supérieure (ENS) from 1977 to 1981. In 1979, Ben Arous received a master's degree in statistics from the University of Paris-Sud. In 1980 he received a Master of Science degree from the University of Paris VI, and in 1981 earned a Ph.D. from the University of Paris VII under Robert Azencott. In the academic year 1982–1983 he was a postdoc at the University of Colorado under the direction of Daniel Stroock. In 1987, Ben Arous earned his habilitation (These d’Etat) and became a maître de conférences at ENS.

In 1988, Ben Arous became a professor at the University of Paris-Sud where he served as the chair of the mathematics department from 1992 to 1994. From 1994 to 1997 he was a professor at ENS and the chair of the mathematics and computer science departments. From 1997 to 2007, Ben Arous was a professor of applied probability theory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where he held the chair of Stochastic Modeling and founded the Bernoulli Institute in 2001. Since 2002 he has been a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. In 2009, Ben Arous served as acting Director of the Courant Institute and became Director in 2011. He was appointed as the Vice-Provost for Science and Engineering Development at New York University in 2011.