Simone Gutt (born 1956) is a Belgian mathematician specializing in

differential geometry Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multili ...

. She is a professor of mathematics at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Education and career

Gutt was born on 13 July 1956 in

Uccle Uccle () or Ukkel () is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch). It is generally considered an affluent area of the city a ...

, near

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. She completed her doctorate in 1980 at the Université libre de Bruxelles; her dissertation, ''Déformations formelles de l'algèbre des fonctions différentiables sur une variété symplectique'', was jointly supervised by Michel Cahen and . She was a researcher for the

National Fund for Scientific Research The National Fund for Scientific Research (NFSR) (Dutch: ''Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek'' (NFWO), French: ''Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique'' (FNRS)) was once a government institution in Belgium for supporting scient ...

from 1981 until 1991, and became a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1992.

Recognition

Gutt was the 1998 winner of the quadrennial Francois Deruyts Prize in geometry of the

Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB) is a non-governmental association which promotes and organises science and the arts in Belgium by coordinating the national and international activities of its constituent academies su ...

. She was elected to the

Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (french: Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, sometimes referred to as ') is the independent learned society of science and arts of the French Comm ...

in 2004.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gutt, Simone 1956 births Living people Belgian mathematicians Belgian women mathematicians Academic staff of the Université libre de Bruxelles Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium