Isabelle Gallagher

Isabelle Gallagher (born 27 October 1973) is a French mathematician. Her research concerns partial differential equations such as the Navier–Stokes equations, the wave equation, and the Schrödinger equation, as well as harmonic analysis of the Heisenberg group.^[1][2]

Isabelle Gallagher
Born	(1973-10-27) 27 October 1973 (age 51) Cagnes-sur-Mer
Nationality	French
Awards	Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet
Academic background
Alma mater	Pierre and Marie Curie University
Doctoral advisor	Jean-Yves Chemin
Academic work
Discipline	Mathematics
Sub-discipline	Partial differential equations
Institutions	Paris Diderot University French National Centre for Scientific Research

Education and career

Gallagher was born on 27 October 1973, in Cagnes-sur-Mer.^[3] She earned her PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1998. Her dissertation, supervised by Jean-Yves Chemin, concerned fluid dynamics.^[4]

She worked at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique and then, in 2004, became a professor at Paris Diderot University.^[1]

She was elected president of the Société mathématique de France in june 2024.

Recognition

In 2008, the French Academy of Sciences awarded her the Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet.^[2] She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.^[5] She won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2016.^[6]