Jean-Benoît Bost

In 1977, Bost graduated from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and finished first in the Concours général, a national competition.

Bost studied from 1979 to 1983 (qualifying in 1981 for the agrégation des mathématiques) at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), where he was from 1984 to 1988 agrégé-préparateur (teacher) and worked under the direction of Alain Connes.

[citation needed] In 2006, he was an invited speaker with talk Evaluation maps, slopes, and algebraicity criteria at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid.

[2] From 2005 to 2015, Bost was a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

He was elected in 2012 a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and in 2016 a member of Academia Europaea.