Christine De Mol (born 23 April 1954) is a Belgian applied mathematician and mathematical physicist interested in
inverse problems,
regularization
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,
wavelets, and
machine learning, and known for her work on
proximal gradient methods and the application of
proximal gradient methods for learning. She is a professor of mathematics at the
Université libre de Bruxelles, and the former chair of the
SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Science.
Education
De Mol was educated at the Université libre de Bruxelles, earning a
licence
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in physics in 1975 and a Ph.D. in 1979, with a dissertation ''Sur la régularisation des problèmes inverses linéaires''
under the joint supervision of Jean Reignier and Mario Bertero.
Career
De Mol became a researcher for the Belgian
National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS), obtaining a permanent position there in 1981 and becoming a director of research in 1996. Meanwhile, she had obtained a
habilitation
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from the Université libre de Bruxelles; her habilitation thesis was ''Super-résolution en microscopie confocale''. In 1998 she gave up her position with the FNRS, becoming an honorary researcher with them, to become a full professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. She was head of the mathematics department at the university for 2009–2010, and chair of the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Activity Group on Imaging Science for 2012–2013.
References
External links
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1954 births
Living people
Belgian mathematicians
Belgian physicists
Belgian women mathematicians
21st-century women physicists
Université libre de Bruxelles alumni
Academic staff of the Université libre de Bruxelles