Vincent Rivasseau

Vincent Rivasseau (born 5 December 1955 in Talence) is a French mathematical physicist.

Rivasseau studied from 1974 to 1978 at the École Normale Supérieure and then in 1978/79 at Princeton University with Arthur Wightman as advisor.

In 1979 he got his PhD (Thèse de troisième cycle, Sommations et Estimations d'amplitudes de Feynman), at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, followed by the Thèse d'État (1982, Développements asymptotiques et méthodes graphiques en physique mathématique).

From 1981 to 2001 he was a scientist of the CNRS at the Center for Theoretical Physics of École Polytechnique.

He is committed to the development of science in Africa, being a co-founder of the AIMS-Sénégal Institute [3] (2011)[6] and president of the Association pour la Promotion Scientifique de l'Afrique [4], which he founded in 2009.