Philippe Gabriel Michel (born 23 January 1969) is a French mathematician who holds the chair in analytic number theory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

Early life, education and career 
Michel was born in Lyon. He studied from 1989 to 1993 at the École normale supérieure de Cachan, and then moved to the University of Paris-Sud, where he earned a doctorate in 1995 under the supervision of Étienne Fouvry and then a habilitation in 1998. He was a professor at the University of Montpellier from 1998 to 2008, when he moved to EPFL.

Recognition
In 1999, Michel was awarded the Peccot-Vimont Prize and gave the Peccot Lecture at the Collège de France.
In 2006, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
In 2011, he was elected to the Academia Europaea.
In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

References

External links
Home page

1969 births
Living people
Swiss mathematicians
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
Number theorists
Academic staff of the University of Montpellier
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Members of Academia Europaea
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars