Marc Mézard

Marc Mézard
Director of the École normale supérieure
In office
19 April 2012  15 March 2022
Preceded byMonique Canto-Sperber
Succeeded byFrédéric Woms
Personal details
Born (1957-08-29) 29 August 1957
Aurillac, France
EducationLycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure
Known forEuclidean random matrix
Cavity method
Random energy model
AwardsAmpère Prize (1996)
Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize (2009)
Lars Onsager Prize (2016)
Racah Lecture (2017)
Three Physicists Prize (2021)

Marc Mézard (born 29 August 1957) is a French physicist and academic administrator. He was, from 2012 to 2022, the director of the École normale supérieure (ENS). He is the co-author of two books.