Christiane Rousseau OC OQ (born March 30, 1954, in Versailles, France) is a French and Canadian mathematician, a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at the Université de Montréal.
[1] Rousseau earned her Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal in 1977, under the supervision of Dana Schlomiuk, with a thesis entitled "Topos Theory and Complex Analysis".
[1][2] After postdoctoral research at McGill University, she joined the Montréal faculty in 1979, and was promoted to full professor in 1991.
She actively participates in mathematics popularization programs in high schools and cégeps, namely through presentations as well as the publication of over 35 vulgarization articles in the Accromath journal.
[8] In 2017 she became the inaugural recipient of the AMS' Bertrand Russell prize for furthering human values and the common good through mathematics.