October 2013-June 2014: Fernando Codà Marques is hired on a Bézout research chair. He is now full professor at Princeton University, and famous for having settled, with Neves, a series of conjectures in differential geometry, starting with the Willmore conjecture. He was a plenary speaker at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians. His visit had a profound impact on the activity on the members of the Bézout Labex working in the area images and geometry.