Antoine Georges, born in 1961 in Paris, attended the École Polytechnique (1980–1983) and then joined the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics at the École Normale Supérieure in 1984, where he defended his dissertation in 1988. He worked as a researcher at that laboratory until 2003, first as a research fellow and later as a research director at the CNRS. In 2003, he established a research team at the École Polytechnique’s Center for Theoretical Physics focused on the physics of materials with strong quantum correlations. He is a professor at the École Polytechnique, where he served as chair of the physics department from 2006 to 2009. Antoine Georges was appointed professor at the Collège de France in 2009 (Chair of Quantum Condensed Matter Physics). He has spent considerable time abroad, including from 1989 to 1991 as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University (USA), and subsequently as a visiting researcher and professor (notably in the USA—at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Rutgers University—and in Switzerland—at EPFL and the University of Geneva).
