Cédric Villani jẹ oniṣiro Faranse ti a bi ni ọdun 1973. O kọ ẹkọ ni Toulon ni Lycée Dumont-Urville ati lẹhinna darapọ mọ kilasi igbaradi ni Lycée Louis-le-Grand. O gbe kẹrin ni idanwo ẹnu-ọna si Ecole normale supérieure.
O kọ iwe-ẹkọ rẹ, eyiti o gbeja ni 1998, lori koko-ọrọ ti “ilana mathematiki ti idogba Boltzmann”. Lati 2000 si 2002 o kọ ni ENS ti Lyon ati lẹhinna ni University of Lyon. O ti ṣe ọpọlọpọ awọn ọjọgbọn abẹwo si ni Atlanta, Berkley ati Princeton.
Lati 2009 si 2017, Cédric Villani jẹ oludari ti Ile-ẹkọ Henri Poincaré ni Ilu Paris.
Iṣẹ rẹ lori ilana ẹkọ kainetik (awọn idogba Boltzmann ati Vlasov, ati awọn iyatọ wọn), ati gbigbe ọkọ ti o dara julọ ati awọn ohun elo rẹ ti ni ere nipasẹ awọn iyatọ lọpọlọpọ:
- Louis Armand Prize 2001
- Peccot-Vimont Prize 2003
- Jacques Herbrand Grand Prize (2007)
- Ẹbun Fermat (2009)
- Ebun Henri-Poincaré (2009)
- Medal Awọn aaye (2010)
- Knight ti Legion of Honor (2011)
- Ebun François-Mauriac (2013)
- Ikẹkọ Gibbs (2013)
- Ẹbun Joseph L. Doob (2014)
Ni 2017, o ti dibo si Ile-igbimọ Faranse pẹlu ẹgbẹ “La République en marche”, o nsoju Essonne lati 2017 si 2022. Lẹhin ti o padanu ijoko rẹ nipasẹ awọn ibo 19 nikan ni Oṣu Karun ọdun 2022, Villani pada si agbaye ti ile-ẹkọ giga ni Oṣu Kẹsan. nipa gbigbe soke a professorship laarin awọn Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 ati awọn Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Université de Lyon).