Benoit Collins

Benoît Collins is associate professor at Kyoto University’s mathematics department. He studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and Sorbonne Université (Paris 6) from which he got a PhD in mathematics in 2003. Before arriving in Kyoto in 2014, he has held visiting positions in Japan, and permanent positions at CNRS (Lyon 1) and in Canada (Ottawa).

His primary field of research is probability theory and operator algebras. In the last ten years, he has devoted a substantial amount of his research energy to the field quantum information. He is associate editor of four international research journals and has more than 65 peer reviewed published papers. He has supervised dozens of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, many of whom have become leading academic researchers. Finally, he has contributed to the scientific community in many ways, such as being involved as organizer of world events in random matrix theory, quantum information theory and operator algebras.