# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-francois-le-gall
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:36:43.077Z

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name: "Jean-François Le Gall"
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description: "Jean-François Le Gall is a French mathematician working in areas of probability theory such as Brownian motion, Lévy processes, superprocesses and their connections with partial differential equations, the Brownian snake, random trees, branching processes, stochastic coalescence and random planar maps. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from Pierre and Marie Curie University under the supervision of Marc Yor. He is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in December 2013."
tagline: "French mathematician"
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birthDate: "1959-11-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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