 From 2002 to 2011, Fargues was a chargé de recherches at the CNRS in Orsay, from 2011 to 2013 he was research director at the IRMA in Strasbourg and, from 2013, a professor at the l'Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu in Paris (a campus of the Sorbonne University).Fargues works mainly centers around the study of Shimura varieties, p-divisible groups and their moduli spaces, and p-adic Hodge theory.One of his most significant contributions has been to link the local Langlands correspondence with the so-called "Fargues-Fontaine curve," an object introduced by Fargues together with Jean-Marc Fontaine.