Adrien Brochier
I’m maître de conférences ($\approx$ associate professor) at Université Paris Cité and a member of the team “Groups, representations and geometry” of the Institut de Mathématiques Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche.
My research interests are mainly in quantum algebra and mathematical physics, and their relation with low dimensional topology. I grew up working on quantum groups and analogs of Drinfeld associators, the so-called KZ equation and the associated representations of braid groups and links invariants. Now I’m trying to use a certain “higher algebraic” point of view on topological field theories and deformation-quantization in a somewhat concrete way to prove stuffs in representation theory and low-dimensional topology.
- I am the PI of the “Emergence project” DQPeST, a two years grant funded by the IdEx program associated with Université Paris Cité.
- I’m a co-organizer of the Journées de topologie quantique
- My long time collaborator David Jordan and I were awarded the 2025 Berwick prize.
- I am an elected member of the section 25 of the Conseil National des Universités.
- I am an elected member of the scientific council of the math faculty, and a member of the Comité Parité.
- I’m a member of the ANR project SHoCoS led by my colleague Najib Idrissi.
- I am part of the organization of the Paris instance of “Les Maths C pour L”, a “math camp” for female undergrads.
- I’m a member, and the webmaster of the website, of the CNRS thematic network rtop.
- I contributed a couple of short texts and one picture to the 2023 maths calendar published by the Presses Universitaires de Grenoble.