Marie-Claude Arnaud-Delabrière (born 24 February 1963) is a French mathematician, specializing in

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s. She is University Professor of Mathematics at the

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and a senior member of the

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Education and career

Arnaud was a mathematics student at the

École normale supérieure (Paris) The – PSL (; also known as ENS, , Ulm or ENS Paris) is a ''grande école'' in Paris, France. It is one of the constituent members of Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL). Due to its selectivity, historical role, and influence within F ...

from 1983 to 1987; she earned a bachelor's degree in 1984, an

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in 1985, and a

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in 1986. She earned her doctorate in 1990 from

Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Pari ...

under the supervision of Michael Herman, and completed a

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in 1999 at

Paris-Sud University Paris-Sud University (), also known as the University of Paris — XI (or as the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, ...

. After working as an assistant at

Louis Pasteur University Louis Pasteur University (, ULP), also known as Strasbourg I, was a large university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of 15 January 2007, there were 18,847 students enrolled at the university, including around 3,000 foreign students. Researc ...

from 1987 to 1989, and then as a temporary researcher at Paris Diderot University from 1989 to 1991, she became an assistant professor at Paris Diderot University in 1991. In 2001 she moved to Avignon as a full professor.

Recognition

In 2010, Arnaud was a speaker at the

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. In 2011 she won the of the

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for her work on Hamiltonian dynamical systems, and in particular on the regularity of invariant curves in the dynamics of billiards. She was named to the

as a senior member in 2013. She became a member of the

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in 2020.

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