Philippe Gabriel Michel (born 23 January 1969) is a French mathematician who holds the chair in analytic number theory at the ÃÂcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
Michel was born in Lyon. He studied from 1989 to 1993 at the ÃÂcole normale supérieure de Cachan, and then moved to the University of Paris-Sud, where he earned a doctorate in 1995 under the supervision of ÃÂtienne Fouvry and then a habilitation in 1998. He was a professor at the University of Montpellier from 1998 to 2008, when he moved to EPFL.
In 1999, Michel was awarded the Peccot-Vimont Prize and gave the Peccot Lecture at the Collège de France. In 2006, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. In 2011, he was elected to the Academia Europaea. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.