Viviane Baladi - Biography#

Viviane Baladi (born May 23, 1963) is a mathematician, director of research, classe exceptionnelle, at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France. Her research concerns dynamical systems, ergodic theory and mathematical physics. She is a French and Swiss citizen.

Baladi has master degrees in mathematics and computer science from the university of Geneva. She obtained her Ph.D. also from the university of Geneva with a dissertation on the use of zeta functions in dynamical systems. She worked at CNRS beginning in 1990, with a leave of absence from 1993 to 1999 when she taught at ETH Zurich and the University of Geneva. She also spent a year as a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 2012–2013.

She has been an invited speaker, a great honor, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014, speaking in the section on "Dynamical Systems and Ordinary Differential Equations". She was a plenary lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics 2021 in Geneva.