Professional Career

Thèse d’Etat 1985 (under the supervision of X. Fernique), University of Strasbourg, France
Junior Researcher at CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Strasbourg 1982-90 and University of Paris VI 1990-91
Full Professor University of Toulouse – Paul-Sabatier 1991 – 2021. Emeritus 2021
On leave at CNRS 2004-05
Junior member 1997-2002 and Senior member 2010-20 of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)

University of Wisconsin-Madison, April-July 1984 (junior scientific visitor)
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, April-July 1986 (visiting professor)
Texas A&M University, September-December 1986 (visiting assistant professor)
The Ohio State University, September-December 1988 (visiting associate professor)
Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule Zurich, November 1998 (scientific visitor)
Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, October 2007-January 2008 (Co-Organizer of the semester program Complex Stochastic Systems: Discrete vs. Continuous)
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Berkeley, September 2013 (Co-Organizer of the thematic semester in Real Analysis in Computer Science)
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications IMA Minneapolis, April-May 2015 (Co-Organizer of the thematic year in Discrete Structures: Analysis and Applications)

Plenary speaker, Congrès d’Analyse Fonctionnelle, Mons 1992
Speaker at the Bourbaki Seminar 1993, 2008
Invited speaker, World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Bernoulli Society and Institute of Mathematical Statistics IMS (Chapel Hill 1994, Guanajuato 2000, Barcelona 2004)
Speaker at the Ecole d’Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour 1994
Plenary speaker (Medallion Lecture of the Institute of Mathematics Statistics IMS), Conference “Stochastic Processes and their Applications”, Paris 2006
Speaker at the Cornell Summer School in Probability 2007
Plenary speaker, First joint meeting of the French and Spanish Mathematical Societies, Zaragoza 2007
Invited speaker, European Congress of Mathematics, Amsterdam ECM 2008
Sackler’s lecturer, Conference “The state of Geometry and Functional Analysis” (in honor of Professor Vitali Milman’s 70th birthday), Israel 2009
Plenary speaker, “9th German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics”, Leipzig 2010
Le Cam Lecture “Journées de la Société Française de Statistique”, Bruxelles 2012
Invited speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul ICM 2014
Kai Lai Chung Lecture, “Seminar on Stochastic Processes”, University of Delaware 2015
Schramm Lecture, Conference “Stochastic Processes and their Applications”, Oxford 2015
Birnbaum Lecture, Pacific Northwest Probability Seminar, Seattle 2017

Ecole d’Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour 1994. Isoperimetry and Gaussian Analysis
Berlin University 1997. Concentration of measure and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities
ETH Zurich, 1998. The geometry of Markov diffusion generators
Instructional Conference on Combinatorial Aspects of Mathematical Analysis, ICMS Edinburgh 2002. Functional methods for measure concentration
SFB 611 Summer School Singular Phenomena and Scaling in Mathematical Models, Bonn 2003. Measure concentration, transportation cost, and functional inequalities
Summer School Connections between Geometric Probability and Functional Analysis, Jerusalem, 2005. Deviation inequalities on largest eigenvalues
Cornell Summer School in Probability 2007. Concentration inequalities for random matrix and random growth models
ERC Summer School Analysis and Geometry in Metric Measure Spaces, Pisa 2012. Markov semigroups, functional inequalities and curvature
Minerva Lectures, University of Columbia, New York 2013. Concentration inequalities and applications.
UK Easter Probability Meeting, Lancaster 2016. Concentration inequalities: basics and some new challenges

Conferences and Thematic Programs

Co-Organizer with A. Kuijlaars of the Conference “Random Matrices”, CIRM Luminy 2006
Co-Organizer of the semester program Complex Stochastic Systems: Discrete vs. Continuous, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn 2007-08
Co-Organizer with M. Rudelson and G. Schechtman of the conference “Random Matrices, Geometric Functional Analysis and Algorithms”, MFO Oberwolfach 2011
Co-Organizer with J.-R. Chazottes and F. Redig of the Conference Concentration inequalities and their applications, CIRM Luminy 2012
Co-Organizer of the semester program Real Analysis in Computer Science, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley 2013
Co-Organizer of the IMA Thematic Year on Discrete Structures: Analysis and Applications, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications IMA, University of Minnesota 2014-15

Editorial Boards

Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré – Probabilités et Statistiques (1989-2006)
Annals of Probability (1994-2000)
Journal of Theoretical Probability (1994-2002)
Séminaire de Probabilités (1998-2004)
Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse – Mathématiques (2000-02)
Potential Analysis (2000-06)
Applied Mathematics Research eXpress (2003-14)
ALEA (2005-15)
Probability Theory and Related Fields (2006-11)
Electronic Journal of Probability/Electronic Communications in Probability (2006-15)
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (2007-09)
Journal of the European Mathematical Society (2014-18)
Journal of Functional Analysis (2016-19)

Administrative and Scientific Duties

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre Emile Borel of the Institut Henri Poincaré 1994–2000
Member of the Panel Committee “Probability and Statistics” of the ICM2006 and of the Panel Committee “Probability” of the ICM2022
Member of the Panel of the European Research Council Advanced Grant PE1: Mathematical Foundations 2009-11-13.
Member of the Fermat Prize Committee 2001-03-05-07-19. Coordinator of the Fermat Prize 2003-05-07

Michel Ledoux