Announcing the 2020-2021 Alliance Visiting Professors

Alain Duplouy
Reader in Greek Archaeology
Home Institution: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Host Institution: Columbia University
Host Department: Art History and Archaeology
Visiting Term: Spring 2021

Alain Duplouy has directed archaeological fieldwork programs in both Greece and Italy and has published extensively on elites and citizenship in archaic Greece. He is the author of "Le Prestige des élites" (Les Belles Lettres, 2006) and has edited the collective volume "Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece" (Oxford University Press, 2018) with Roger Brock. His last book "Construire la cité"  was published in 2019 by Les Belles Lettres. Profile

Christophe Josserand
Chair of the Mechanics Department  and Research Director CNRS
Home Institution: École Polytechnique
Host Institution: Columbia University 
Host Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Visiting Term: Spring 2021

Christophe Josserand's main research interest is on surface dynamics, either through multiphase flows where the interface dynamics is crucial, surface vibrations (elastic plates or liquid surfaces) or interface deformations. Profile

Duy Linh Tu
Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Journalism; Director of Multimedia Programs
Home Institution: Columbia University
Host Institution: Sciences Po 
Host Department: Journalism School
Visiting Term: Fall 2020

Duy Linh Tu is a journalist and documentary filmmaker, focusing on education, science, and social justice. His work has appeared in print, online, on television, and in theaters. He is also the author of "Narrative Storytelling for Multimedia Journalists" (Focal Press). Profile

Jeremy Perelman
Associate Professor
Home Institution: Sciences Po Law School
Host Institution: Columbia University 
Host Department:  Columbia Law School
Visiting Term: Fall 2020

Jeremy Perelman is a Law professor and human rights lawyer whose research focuses on the intersection between human rights-based approaches to sustainable development, global economic governance, and social change advocacy. He has been involved in a variety of research, teaching and advocacy projects in these fields in the U.S., France, South Africa, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Latin America. He notably co-directed a research project for French institutions on access to justice in South Africa in 2000-2001, and was a researcher and consultant for the Center for Economic and Social Rights, an international NGO based in New York. Profile

Lucas Gerin
Assistant Professor
Home Institution: École Polytechnique
Host Institution: Columbia University 
Host Department: Mathematics
Visiting Term: Spring 2021

Lucas Gerin's mathematical research is in the area of Combinatorial Probability and some applications to Statistical Mechanics. More precisely, his goal is to describe the limit behavior of various random combinatorial objects, such as permutations, graphs, paths. He is particularly interested in exhibiting new limiting objects and universality phenomena. Profile

Marcel Nutz
Associate Professor
Home Institution:  Columbia University 
Host Institution: École Polytechnique
Host Department: Applied Mathematics
Visiting Term: Spring 2021 

Marcel Nutz is a mathematician working in applied probability theory with a focus on quantitative finance, game theory and optimal transportation. Profile

Qiang Du
Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics; Chair of Applied Mathematics Program; Co-Chair of Center for Computing Systems for Data-Driven Science
Home Institution: Columbia University 
Host Institution: École Polytechnique
Host Department: Mechanics
Visiting Term: Spring 2021 

Qiang Du is an applied mathematician with research interests in numerical analysis, mathematical modeling and scientific computation with applications in physical, biological, materials, data, and information sciences. Profile

Richard Peña
Professor of Professional Practice in Film
Home Institution: Columbia University 
Host Institution: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Host Department: School of the Arts
Visiting Term: Spring 2021 

Richard Peña has served as the Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Director of the New York Film Festival from 1988 to 2012. He has also been a visiting professor at Princeton, Harvard, the University of São Paulo and Beijing University, and has participated several times in the Alliance Program. At the Film Society, he has organized retrospectives of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sacha Guitry, Abbas Kiarostami, Robert Aldrich, Gabriel Figueroa, Ritwik Ghatak, Kira Muratova, Youssef Chahine, Yasujiro Ozu, Carlos Saura, and Amitabh Bachchan, as well as major film series devoted to African, Chinese, Cuban, Polish, Hungarian, Arab, Korean, Japanese Soviet and Argentine cinema. He is currently the co-host of Channel 13’s weekly Reel 13. Profile