Sophie Morel

Sophie Morel (born 1979)[3] is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory.

In 2012 she received one of the ten prizes of the European Mathematical Society.

In a 2011 interview, Morel credited a math magazine bought while in 9th grade as well as summer camps for developing her interest in mathematics[4] and in a 2012 interview she mentioned being a keen distance runner.

She gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, in the "Number Theory" section.

[10] In 2012 she received one of the prestigious European Mathematical Society Prize for young researchers, and in May 2013 she was announced as the winner of the inaugural 2014 AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory.