Academic Life
Breuil attended schools in Brive-la-Gaillarde and Toulouse and studied from 1990 to 1992 at the École Polytechnique.
In 1993, he obtained his DEA degree at the Paris-Sud 11 University located in Orsay.
From 1993 to 1996 he conducted research at the École Polytechnique and taught simultaneously at the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay.
In 1996, he received his PhD from the École Polytechnique, supervised by Jean-Marc Fontaine with the thesis "Cohomologie log-cristalline et représentations galoisiennes p -adiques".
In 1997, he gave the Cours Peccot at the Collège de France.
In 2001 he obtained a habilitation degree entitled "Aspects entiers de la théorie de Hodge p-adique et applications" at Paris-Sud 11 University.
Since 2002 he has been at IHES as Director of Research with the CNRS.
In 2007/08 he was a visiting professor at Columbia University.
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