Raphaël Rouquier, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles![Portrait photo of Raphaël Rouquier](https://simonsfoundation.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/12031936/Rouquier.jpg?auto=format&w=120&h=120&fit=crop&crop=faces&q=90)
Raphaël Rouquier has initiated a new field in mathematics, ‘higher representation theory.’ He constructed novel categories of geometric and representation-theoretic interest and applied these to problems in the theory of finite groups, Lie theory, algebraic geometry and mathematical physics.