Denis Auroux is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.  He was a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and obtained his PhD in 1999 from Ecole Polytechnique.  Prior to joining UC Berkeley in 2009 as a Full Professor, he held positions at CNRS (from 2000 to 2003) and at MIT (Assistant Professor from 2002 to 2004, and Associate Professor from 2004 to 2009, with tenure starting in 2006). His research work is in the general area of symplectic geometry, with a focus that has shifted over the years from four-dimensional topology towards the study of mirror symmetry.

Professor Auroux has given over 280 invited presentations and lecture series related to his work, including lecture courses on mirror symmetry at the Institut Henri Poincaré as one of two inaugural holders of the Poincaré Chair, and at Columbia University where he held the Fall 2016 Eilenberg Chair.  He was an invited speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians. He is a principal investigator in the Simons Collaboration on Homological Mirror Symmetry, a large scale research effort that aims to solve the key questions in the field.

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