Yves Pomeau

Yves Pomeau, born in 1942, is a French mathematician and physicist, emeritus research director at the CNRS and corresponding member of the French Academy of sciences. He was one of the founders of the Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. He is the son of literature professor René Pomeau.

Yves Pomeau did his state thesis in plasma physics, almost without any adviser, at the University of Orsay-France in 1970. After his thesis, he spent a year as a postdoc with Ilya Prigogine in Brussels.

He was a researcher at the CNRS from 1965 to 2006, ending his career as DR0 in the Physics Department of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) (Statistical Physics Laboratory) in 2006.

He was a lecturer in physics at the École Polytechnique for two years (1982–1984), then a scientific expert with the Direction générale de l'armement until January 2007.

He was Professor, with tenure, part-time at the Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, from 1990 to 2008.

He was visiting scientist at Schlumberger–Doll Laboratories (Connecticut, USA) from 1983 to 1984.

He was a visiting professor at MIT in Applied Mathematics in 1986 and in Physics at UC San Diego in 1993.

He was Ulam Scholar at CNLS, Los Alamos National Lab, in 2007–2008.