Florent Krzakala grew up in
Marseille,
France, where he studied at the
Lycée Saint-Exupéry and
Aix-Marseille University, and then moved to
Paris for his graduate studies. After a master's degree in particle physics, he switched field to statistical physics for his PhD, which he obtained in 2002 jointly from the
Pierre and Marie Curie University and the
Paris-Sud University under the supervision of Prof. Olivier Martin in the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models in
Orsay, where he also collaborated with Prof.
Marc Mézard. His doctoral work focused on the
thermodynamics of disordered systems and spin glasses. He then moved to the
Sapienza University of Rome as a postdoctoral researcher, where he studied various statistical physics topics such as glassy systems,
Monte-Carlo simulation techniques, and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in the laboratory of Prof.
Giorgio Parisi. In 2004, he was named associate professor at
ESPCI Paris, in the laboratoire Gulliver. In 2013, he became full professor at the
Pierre and Marie Curie University and the
École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and joined the physics laboratory in Ecole Normale Supérieure. In September 2020, he was appointed Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Physics at
EPFL, where he founded the laboratoire IdePHICS. He has also held various visiting positions at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
University of California in Berkeley, at
Duke University, and in the
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at
the University of California, Santa Barbara. == Research ==