Talagrand was also a faculty member at The Ohio State University for more than fifteen years.

Talagrand was elected as correspondent of the Académie des sciences of Paris in March 1997, and then as a full member in November 2004, in the Mathematics section.

Talagrand commented in the introduction to his two volume monograph on mean field models of spin glasses: More generally theoretical physicists have discovered wonderful new areas of mathematics, which they have explored by their methods.

Michel Talagrand was awarded the Abel Prize from The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for 2024 for his work in ‘Suprema of stochastic processes’, ‘Concentration of measures’ and ‘Spin glass’.

[4] He is married to Wansoo Rhee, a now retired professor of management science at The Ohio State University, whom he met on his first ever trip to the USA.