After the disillusionment of the legislative elections, Cédric Villani remains engaged in politics “as an academic and intellectual”

He let his beard grow out this summer, and his spider brooch still hangs from his suit jacket. Three months after losing in the legislative elections, the former ecologist deputy (ex-LREM) Cédric Villani reappears in public life, still without a car and without taking the plane, juggling trains and cycling. The mathematician will share his time between Lyon 1 University and the Institute for Higher Scientific Studies (IHES), this “temple of mathematics and physics” renowned throughout the world.