CV
• PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Anna Erschler, née Dioubina
Date of birth: 14.02.1977
https://www.math.ens.fr/fiche-membre/fiche-membre.php?id_membre=291
https://sites.google.com/site/annaerschler/home
• EDUCATION
October 2013 Habilitation degree in Mathematics, University of Orsay
October 2001 PhD degree in Mathematics obtained at St-Petersburg State University
1999-2000 Postgraduate student in Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, School of Mathematical Sciences, Israel
1994-1999 M.Sc. in Mathematics, St.-Petersburg State University, Dpt. for Mathematics and Mechanics, Russia
• CURRENT POSITION
2014 – present Directeur de Recherche at CNRS, Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
2017 – 2020 Professeur Attaché, ENS de Paris, France
• PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2013 – 2014 Directeur de Recherche at CNRS, Department of Mathematics, University of Orsay France
2006 – 2013 Charge de Recherche at CNRS, Department of Mathematics, University of Orsay, France
2003 – 2005 Charge de Recherche at CNRS, Department of Mathematics, University of Lille, France
2002 – 2003 Postdoctoral position of the European Postdoctoral Insitute,
IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette and IRMAR, Rennes, France
2001 – 2002 Postdoctorsal position at St Petersburg Branch of Steklov
Mathematical Institute, Russia
• AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2001 Moebius Prize at the Independant University of Moscow,
2002 Annual Prize of St.Petersburg Mathematical Society
2010 Invited talk at the ICM, Hyderabad
2015 Elie Cartan Prize of the French Academy of Science
2020 CNRS Silver Medal
• ADMINISTRATIVE AND EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2010-2013 Member of CCSU comittee, University of Orsay, France
2014-2014 Member of hiring committee MdC, University of Orsay, France
2017 Member of hiring committee MdC, Univesity Paris 7
2010 -2015 Principal Investigator of the ERC starting grant "Random Walks and Growth of Groups"
2017-2023 Principal Investigator of the ERC consolidator grant "Growth, Isoperimetry and Random walks on groups"
2007-present Member of the editorial board of the journal "Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics"
• SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
2011-2011 Rostislav Kravchenko, postdoc, University of Orsay
2011-2013 Wenyuan Yang, postdoc, University of Orsay
2013-2015 Elisabeth Fink, postdoc, University of Orsay and ENS, Paris
2016-2017 Pavel Zatitskiy, postdoc, ENS, Paris
2017-2018 Johannes Cuno , postdoc, ENS Paris
2017-2019 Markus Steenbcok, postdoc, ENS Paris
2018-2019 Arman Darbinyan, postdoc, ENS Paris
2019 Tianyi Zheng (senior postdoc, 6 months)
2014-2016 Nicolas Matte Bon, phd student, phd thesis " Liouville property, entropy, and
amenability of countable groups ", University of Orsay and ENS, Paris
2016 - 2020 Yanis Amirou, phd student, phd thesis " uniform bounds for word length and groups of bounded elements", ENS Paris
2018- 2021 Bogdan Stankov, phd student, phd thesis "Poisson boundary of random walks and isoperimetric profiles of groups ", ENS Paris
2019-2022 Nima Hoda, postdoc, ENS Paris
2019-2023 Ivan Mitrofanov, postdoc, ENS Paris
2021- current Eduardo Silva, phd student ENS Paris
2021 -2023 Josh Frisch, postdoc, ENS Paris
2022 - 2023 Rachel Skipper, senior postdoc, ENS Paris
2023 - current Andrei Alpeev, senior postdoc, ENS Paris
2023 - current Panagiotis Tselekidis, postdoc, ENS Paris
• TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2010 Master course (M2) Orsay, "Introduction to infinite groups"
2012 Master course (M2) Orsay , (with Bertrand Deroin) "Random walks on groups"
2013 Master course (M2) Orsay, (with Bertrand Deroin)
"Probabilistic and geometric boundaries of groups"
2016 Master course (M1) ENS, (with Laurent Bartholdi)
"Amenability of groups"
2017 Teaching seminar "Property T of Kazhdan ", ENS
2018 Master course (M2) ENS ,"Geometric invariants of infinite groups "
2019 Master course (M2) ENS "Random walks on infinite groups "
2020 Master course (M2) ENS "Random walks on infinite graphs and groups"
2024 Master cours (M2) ENS "Harmonic functions on groups"
minicourses: Orsay, 2004; Marseille, 2003; Ecole Polytechnique, 2008; Toulouse 2008; Roscoff 2010; Goettingen Universtiy, 2010; Lille University 2013; IHES 2019, YGGT Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, 2020;
supervision of first and second year master thesis's, tutorial of the ENS students
• ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2004 "Analysis and Geometry on random structures", Lille, France
2004 Journee "Marches aleatoires sur les groupes", Lille, France
2006 "Stochastic processes and random fractals", Lille, France
2007 "Probabilites et structures aleatoires", CIRM, Marseille, (member of scientific committee)
2007 Special Semester "Amenability", ESI, Vienna, Austria
2009 workshop "Geometry and Probability on groups", Orsay, France
2011 "Probabilistic Reasoning in Quantitative Geometry" (member of scientific committee),
MSRI, USA
2014 Special trimester "Random walks and asymptotic geometry of groups", IHP Paris, France
(> 250 participants)
2014 Conference "Asymptotic properties of groups", IHP, Paris, France
2015 "Growth, symbolic dynamics and combinatorics of words in groups", ENS
Ulm, Paris, France (> 200 participants)
2015 GAGTA-2015, CIRM, Luminy, France (member of scientific committee)
2019 Conference "Quasi-isometric rigidity of groups", Ventotene, Italy
2020 Conference "Groups, Random Walks, and Dynamics", Paris Diderot (Paris VII)
2022 Special trimester "Groups acting on fractals, hyperbolicity and self-similarity", IHP Paris, France
2016-current organization of a monthly seminar in Group Theory in the ENS, Paris
• OUTREACH
2014 An open day for high school students: "Random walks and groups", IHP, Paris, France (>100 participants)
2019 An open day for high school students, ENS de Paris, France (>100 participants)
2020 Summer School for high school students, "Maths-Sciences 2020", ENS de Paris
• CAREER BREAKS
February 2011 - August 2011 Maternity leave
September 2014- February 2015 Maternity leave