Engineer of the École Polytechnique, Doctor of State in Mathematics of the Sorbonne University, and is currently Research Director at the Center for Applied Mathematics of the École Polytechnique and Professor Emeritus in Mathematics at the University of Rennes. His contributions in the field of applied mathematics are numerous, being the most famous one the formulation of integral representations for Maxwell’s equations and their treatment by the boundary element method, universally known as the Nédélec finite element.