Simone Gutt

Simone Gutt (born 1956) is a Belgian mathematician specializing in differential geometry. She is a professor of mathematics at the Université libre de Bruxelles.¹

Gutt was born on 13 July 1956 in Uccle, near Brussels.¹ She completed her doctorate in 1980 at the Université libre de Bruxelles; her dissertation, Déformations formelles de l'algèbre des fonctions différentiables sur une variété symplectique, was jointly supervised by Michel Cahen and Moshé Flato.²

She was a researcher for the National Fund for Scientific Research from 1981 until 1991, and became a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1992.³

Gutt was the 1998 winner of the quadrennial Francois Deruyts Prize in geometry of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium.³ She was elected to the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium in 2004.¹