Career
He won 2 silver medals at International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 1984 and 1985. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1986. In 1994 he received his Ph.D. under the direction of Gérard Laumon in the Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry team at the Université de Paris-Sud. Currently he is a research director of CNRS, detached as permanent professor of mathematics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (I.H.E.S.) in Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
He received the Clay Research Award in 2000. His younger brother Vincent Lafforgue is also a notable mathematician. On May 22, 2011, Lafforgue was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Notre Dame.
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