Marc Mézard began his research career at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1981 and became Director of Research in 1990. He first worked at the Laboratory of Statistical Physics at the École normale supérieure, then joined the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models (LPTMS) at the University of Paris-Sud in 2001.
He taught at École Polytechnique from 1987 to 2012.
In 2012, he was appointed Director of the École normale supérieure in Paris, a position he held for ten years.
Since 2022, he has been Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University in Milan and a member of several international scientific boards.
Marc Mézard is a graduate of the École normale supérieure (class of 1976) and holds a doctoral degree in statistical physics. A specialist in disordered systems, he has published over 170 scientific papers and co-authored two landmark books: Spin Glass Theory and Beyond (1987) and Information, Physics and Computation (2009). He has received numerous awards, including the CNRS Silver Medal, the Ampère Prize, the Humboldt–Gay-Lussac Prize, the Lars Onsager Prize, and the Three Physicists Prize.
He was born on August 29, 1957, in Aurillac.
