The Hilbert Medal, the highest award of ISCES, is being awarded to Professor J.L.Lions of France.

• Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 1947-1950
• Professor at the College de France, Paris, (1973-1998)
• Honorary Professor at the College de France, (1998 --)
• Member of the French Academy of Sciences, (1973--)
• Honorary Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, March 1988
• President of the Scientific Advisory Board of Pechiney (1991-2000)
• Scientific Adviser ELF (1992—)
• President of the Scientific Advisory Board of GAZ de FRANCE (1993--)
• High Scientific Counsellor of DASSAULT-AVIATION (1992--)
• Administrator of DASSAULT-AVIATION (1992--)
• Chairman Scientific Advisory of the D. G. of EDF (Electricite de France) (1992-1996)
• Scientific Advisory of the D. G. of EDF (Electricite de France) (1992-1996)
• Administrator of SAINT-GOBAIN (1995--)
• Past President of the International Mathematical Union (1995-1998)
• Vice President of the French Academy of Sciences (1995-1996)
• President of the French Academy of Sciences (1996-1998)
• Administrator of PECHINEY (1996--)
• President of Committee 2000
• Member of Forum France-Japan (1996--)
• President of the Scientific Board of FRANCE TELECOM (1998--)
• Administrator of THOMSON MULTIMEDIA (1999--)
• Co chairman of the International Evaluation Committee of Nasda (Japan)

FORMER FUNCTIONS

• Professor at the University of NANCY (1954-1962)
• Professor at the University of PARIS (1962-1973)
• Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique (1966-1986)
• President of INRIA (Institut National de Rccherche en Informatique et en Automatique) (1980-1984)
• President of CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) (1984-19920
• President of the International Mathematical Union (1991-1994)

MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIES

• Academy of Sciences of Paris (1973)
• Société Royale des Sciences de Liége (1973)
• Accademia delle Scienze e lettere, Milano (1977)
• Academia Brasileira de Ciencias (1979)
• USSR Academy of Sciences (1982)
• Royal Academy of Belgium (1986)
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986)
• International Academy of Astronautics (1986)
• Founding Member of the Academiae Europae (1988)
• Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1990)
• Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1991)
• Russian Academy of Sciences (1992)
• Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences (1993)
• Member of the Argentinian Academy of Sciences (19940
• Member of the Royal Society (1996)
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences USA (1996)
• Member of TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences) (1996)
• Member of FORUM France-Japon (1996)
• Fellow of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay (1996)
• Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain (1997)
• Portugal Academy of Sciences (1997)
• Foreign Member of KAST (Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology) (1997)
• Foreign Member of Academy of Sciences of China (1998)
• Member of Lincei Academy (1998)
• DOCTOR HONRIS CAUSA of the Universities of LIEGE (1980), MADRID (Complutense – 1976 and Politecica – 1982), FUDAN (SHANGHAI – 1980), WUHAN (1981), GÖTEBORG (1981), Academia Sinica (BEIJING, 1982), EDINBURGH (1986), SANTIAGO de COMPOSTELA (1988), LAUSANNE (1989), HOUSTON (1992), SANTIAGO of CHILE (1993), MALAGA (1994), JERUSALEM (1997), Jian Tong Univ. SHANGHI (1998), Jian Jong Univ. XIAN (1998), BUAA-BEIJING (1998), MEXICO (1998).

PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS

• Laureate of the French Academy of Sciences, Cognacq-Jay Prize (1972)
• Lecturer at the International Congresses of Mathematicians (1958, 1970, 1974), at IFIP, IFAC, World Congresses.
• John Von Neumann Prize (1986)
• Japan Prize (1991)
• Harvey Prize (1991)
• Daedalon Gold Medal for Science and Technology (Greece, 1991)
• Lecture Leonard de Vinci, University of Milan (1992)
• Russell Marker Conferences, Penn State University  (USA, 1991)
• Reid Prize, SIAM 1998
• Prize of the International Cooperation Scientific and Technology (China 1998)
• Lagrange Prize (1999)
• COMMANDER in the Légion d’Honneur (1993)
• GRAND OFFICIER in l’Ordre National du Mérite (Nov. 1998)
• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star (1998)

MAIN LECTURES

• Plenary lecture at ICIAM (International Congress in Industrial and Applied Math) (Hamburg 1995), “Remarks on some mathematical problems arising in climatology.”
• Plenary lecture at SIAM annual meeting (Charlotte USA, 1995) “Some results and some open problems in the active control of distributed systems.”
• Galilean chair, 1996, Ecole Normale Superieure de Pise. “Trends and problems in climatology.”
• Lecture at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 1996.  “The future of simulation in questions of environment.”
• Conferences 1997 (Rio de Janiero, Pise, Milan, Madrid, Lisbonne, Washington…)
• Conferences 1998 at the International Congress of Scientific Calculus (Taiwan, Buenos Aires, Athens).
• President of Medals Committee of the European Mathematical Society.
• Congress Barcelona (2000)

PUBLISHED BOOKS

More than twenty books, translated in English, Russian, Chinese, and sometimes in Japanese.

MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS

• Mathematical methods for Analysis and Systems Control
• Mathematical, numerical, computing modelisation
• Applications, especially in global climatologic question and in local problems of environment (identification and control).