Armen Shirikyan is a professor in the mathematics department at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (UCP), France, and served as the Head of Department from April 2008 to August 2012. He gained his PhD from Moscow State University in 1995 and his Habilitation thesis from the University of Paris-Sud in 2003. His current research interests are related to the ergodic theory for randomly forced equations of mathematical physics and controllability of nonlinear PDEs.
