Sylvie Méléard
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Sylvie Méléard is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory,
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es, particle systems, and stochastic differential equations. She is editor-in-chief of '' Stochastic Processes and Their Applications''.


Education and career

Méléard grew up in
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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 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 (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...
under the supervision of
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. She took a position at the University of Le Mans, and then moved to Pierre and Marie Curie University as maître de conférences in 1989. At Pierre and Marie Curie, she earned her
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in 1991. She became a professor at Paris Nanterre University in 1992, and moved again to the École Polytechnique 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
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.


Recognition

In September 2018, a conference on
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was held at the Institut Henri Poincaré in honor of Méléard's 60th birthday. She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2021.


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