Emmanuel Giroux

Emmanuel Giroux (born 1961) is a blind French geometer known for his research on contact geometry and open book decompositions.

[1][2] He earned a doctorate from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 1991 under the supervision of François Laudenbach (fr).

[3] He has been the director of the Unit of Mathematics, Pure and Applied (UMPA) at the École normale supérieure de Lyon.

[2][4] In 2015, he left Lyon to co-direct the Unité Mixte International of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

This result allows contact geometry to be studied using the tools of low-dimensional topology.