Sylvie Méléard is a French mathematician specializing in

probability theory Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expre ...

stochastic process In probability theory and related fields, a stochastic () or random process is a mathematical object usually defined as a family of random variables in a probability space, where the index of the family often has the interpretation of time. Sto ...

es,

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s, and

stochastic differential equation A stochastic differential equation (SDE) is a differential equation in which one or more of the terms is a stochastic process, resulting in a solution which is also a stochastic process. SDEs have many applications throughout pure mathematics an ...

s. She is editor-in-chief of '' Stochastic Processes and Their Applications''.

Education and career

Méléard grew up in

Picardy Picardy (; Picard language, Picard and , , ) is a historical and cultural territory and a former regions of France, administrative region located in northern France. The first mentions of this province date back to the Middle Ages: it gained it ...

as the daughter of two high school biology teachers, and was already aiming for a career as a mathematician by the time she was ten years old. She studied at the

Lycée Janson-de-Sailly Lycée Janson-de-Sailly is a ''lycée'' located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. The ''lycéens'' of Janson are called ''les jansoniens'' and they usually refer to their high school as Janson, or JdS. It is the biggest academic inst ...

and, from 1977 to 1981, at the , where she became known for

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during lectures. After earning her

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in 1981, she completed her doctorate in 1984 at

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...

under the supervision of

Nicole El Karoui Nicole El Karoui (''Birth name, née'' List of English words of Yiddish origin, Schvartz) is a French mathematician and pioneer in the development of mathematical finance, born 29 May 1944 in Paris. She is considered one of the pioneers on the Fr ...

. She took a position at the University of Le Mans, and then moved to Pierre and Marie Curie University as

maître de conférences The following summarizes basic academic ranks in the France, French higher education system. Most academic institutions are state-run and most academics with permanent positions are French Civil Service, civil servants, and thus are Academic tenur ...

in 1989. At Pierre and Marie Curie, she earned her

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in 1991. She became a professor at

Paris Nanterre University Paris Nanterre University (), formerly University of Paris West, Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. It is one of the most pres ...

in 1992, and moved again to the

École Polytechnique (, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...

in 2006.

Contributions

With Vincent Bansaye, Méléard is the author of ''Stochastic Models for Structured Populations: Scaling Limits and Long Time Behavior'' (Springer, 2015). She is also the author of ''Modèles aléatoires en ecologie et evolution'' 'Random models in ecology and evolution''(Springer, 2016). As of 2018, she is the editor-in-chief of the journal '' Stochastic Processes and Their Applications'' and, as editor, an executive member in the Bernoulli Society.

Recognition

In September 2018, a conference on

population dynamics Population dynamics is the type of mathematics used to model and study the size and age composition of populations as dynamical systems. Population dynamics is a branch of mathematical biology, and uses mathematical techniques such as differenti ...

was held at the

Institut Henri Poincaré The Henri Poincaré Institute (or IHP for ''Institut Henri Poincaré'') is a mathematics research institute part of Sorbonne University, in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). It is located in the 5th arrondi ...

in honor of Méléard's 60th birthday. She was elected to the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...

in 2021.

References

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