Professor Matthieu Wyart | |
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![]() Matthieu Wyart in 2021 | |
Born | 1978 (age 45–46) |
Citizenship | France |
Education | Physics, mathematics, economics |
Alma mater |
École Polytechnique École normale supérieure Saclay Nuclear Research Centre |
Awards | 2024 Physik-Preis Dresden 2015 Simons Investigator Award 2011 Sloan Fellowship |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Soft
condensed-matter Glass transition Granular matter Deep learning Biophysics Neuroscience Econophysics |
Institutions | EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) |
Thesis | On the rigidity of amorphous solids. Price fluctuations, Conventions and Microstructure of Financial Markets |
Doctoral advisor | Jean-Philippe Bouchaud |
Website |
www |
Matthieu Wyart (born 1978 in Paris, France) is a French physicist. He is a professor of physics at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Physics of Complex Systems Laboratory. [1] [2]
Wyart studied physics, mathematics and economics at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and obtained a degree with honors in physics in 2001. In 2002, he received a diploma in Advanced Studies in theoretical physics with highest honors from the École normale supérieure in Paris. He then joined Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Marc Mézard at the Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé (SPEC) at Saclay Nuclear Research Centre (CEA Saclay) in Paris as a doctoral student. [3] In 2006, he gained a PhD in theoretical physics and finance for a thesis on electronic markets titled On the rigidity of amorphous solids. Price fluctuations, Conventions and Microstructure of Financial Markets. [4]
In 2005, he became an analyst in the research department of Capital Fund Management. [5] Between 2005 and 2008 he was George Carrier Fellow at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. [6] He then joined Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Campus as a research specialist. [7] Starting in 2009, he was a visiting research specialist at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University. [8] He then joined New York University first as Assistant Professor in 2010 and was promoted to an associate professor position in 2014. [2] [9]
Since July 2015, he has been Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics in the School of Basic Sciences at EPFL. [1] [2] He became full professor in 2024. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021. [10]
Wyart’s research encompassed field such as the architecture of allosteric materials, [11] the theory of deep learning, [12] the elasticity and mechanical stability in disordered solids, [13] the granular and suspension flows, [13] the glass and rigidity transitions, [14] the marginal stability at random close packing and other glasses, [15] and the yielding transition and elasto-plasticity. [16]
In particular, some of his recent research is focused on the classification of the elementary excitations controlling the linear and the plastic response in amorphous materials. [17] He has discovered that some of these excitations are marginally stable in the solid phase. [18] This marginality fixes key aspects of structures, and suggest that the density of excitations presents a pseudo-gap. These concepts are important to understand low-temperature properties of glasses, [19] the rheology of dense granular and suspension flows, [20] the elasticity close to the jamming transition, [21] the production transition in foams or metallic glass, [17] and more broadly glassy systems with enough long-range interactions. [22]
Wyart is the recipient of the Physik-Preis Dresden 2024, the 2015 Simons Investigator Award by the Simons Foundation, [23] Chaire Joliot (visiting professor) by the Ecole de Physique et Chimie in Paris in 2013, [24] the 2011 Sloan Fellowship, [9] and the 2005 G. Carrier Fellowship. [24]
Wyart is the son of Françoise Brochard-Wyart and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. [25] He is married to Ksenia Tatarchenko and has two children. [26]
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Professor Matthieu Wyart | |
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![]() Matthieu Wyart in 2021 | |
Born | 1978 (age 45–46) |
Citizenship | France |
Education | Physics, mathematics, economics |
Alma mater |
École Polytechnique École normale supérieure Saclay Nuclear Research Centre |
Awards | 2024 Physik-Preis Dresden 2015 Simons Investigator Award 2011 Sloan Fellowship |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Soft
condensed-matter Glass transition Granular matter Deep learning Biophysics Neuroscience Econophysics |
Institutions | EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) |
Thesis | On the rigidity of amorphous solids. Price fluctuations, Conventions and Microstructure of Financial Markets |
Doctoral advisor | Jean-Philippe Bouchaud |
Website |
www |
Matthieu Wyart (born 1978 in Paris, France) is a French physicist. He is a professor of physics at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Physics of Complex Systems Laboratory. [1] [2]
Wyart studied physics, mathematics and economics at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and obtained a degree with honors in physics in 2001. In 2002, he received a diploma in Advanced Studies in theoretical physics with highest honors from the École normale supérieure in Paris. He then joined Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Marc Mézard at the Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé (SPEC) at Saclay Nuclear Research Centre (CEA Saclay) in Paris as a doctoral student. [3] In 2006, he gained a PhD in theoretical physics and finance for a thesis on electronic markets titled On the rigidity of amorphous solids. Price fluctuations, Conventions and Microstructure of Financial Markets. [4]
In 2005, he became an analyst in the research department of Capital Fund Management. [5] Between 2005 and 2008 he was George Carrier Fellow at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. [6] He then joined Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Campus as a research specialist. [7] Starting in 2009, he was a visiting research specialist at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University. [8] He then joined New York University first as Assistant Professor in 2010 and was promoted to an associate professor position in 2014. [2] [9]
Since July 2015, he has been Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics in the School of Basic Sciences at EPFL. [1] [2] He became full professor in 2024. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021. [10]
Wyart’s research encompassed field such as the architecture of allosteric materials, [11] the theory of deep learning, [12] the elasticity and mechanical stability in disordered solids, [13] the granular and suspension flows, [13] the glass and rigidity transitions, [14] the marginal stability at random close packing and other glasses, [15] and the yielding transition and elasto-plasticity. [16]
In particular, some of his recent research is focused on the classification of the elementary excitations controlling the linear and the plastic response in amorphous materials. [17] He has discovered that some of these excitations are marginally stable in the solid phase. [18] This marginality fixes key aspects of structures, and suggest that the density of excitations presents a pseudo-gap. These concepts are important to understand low-temperature properties of glasses, [19] the rheology of dense granular and suspension flows, [20] the elasticity close to the jamming transition, [21] the production transition in foams or metallic glass, [17] and more broadly glassy systems with enough long-range interactions. [22]
Wyart is the recipient of the Physik-Preis Dresden 2024, the 2015 Simons Investigator Award by the Simons Foundation, [23] Chaire Joliot (visiting professor) by the Ecole de Physique et Chimie in Paris in 2013, [24] the 2011 Sloan Fellowship, [9] and the 2005 G. Carrier Fellowship. [24]
Wyart is the son of Françoise Brochard-Wyart and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. [25] He is married to Ksenia Tatarchenko and has two children. [26]
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