Bernadette Perrin-Riou (born 1 August 1955) is a French number theorist.
Her parents had both had a scientific education;[1] her mother and father were a physicist and chemist, respectively.
[2][3] She entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles in 1974, completing her undergraduate work in 1977.
She then took a research assistant position at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.
[3] In 1994 she moved to a position at University of Paris-Sud in Orsay[2] In the same year, she was invited to give an address at the International Congress of Mathematicians, which was held in Zürich,[3] which she gave on "Fonctions L p-adiques" ("p-adic L-functions").