Sylvie Méléard

Responsabilities 

• Professor at Ecole Polytechnique  and Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France.

• Head of the  Chaire Modélisation Mathématique et Biodiversité (Mathematical  Modeling of Biodiversity ) (Véolia Environnement, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Ecole Polytechnique).

• PI of the ERC Advanced SINGER: Stochastic dynamics of sINgle cells: Growth, Emergence and Resistance.

• PI of  the project ITMO Cancer Aviesan-Inserm : Mathématiques pour une meilleure compréhension des néoplasmes myéloprolifératifs et leurs thérapeutiques.

• Head of the team PEIPS at CMAP, Ecole polytechnique : Population evolution and interacting particle systems.

• Responsable of the  Graduate Studies : Master Mathématiques et Sciences du Vivant .

• Former Editor-in-Chief of  Stochastic Processes and their Applications .

• Former member of the Evaluation Committee of Inria.

• Membre du comité de pilotage de la Fondation de Mathématiques Jacques Hadamard FMJH .

• Associate Editor of "Stochastic Processes and their Applications", "CRAS",  "Stochastics Partial Differential Equations", " Lecture Notes on Mathematical Modelling in the Life Sciences", "Mathématiques & Applications" SMAI-Springer. 

Education and professional experience

1977 -1981 : Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Aux-Roses.

1981 : Agregation of Mathematics.

1984 : PhD thesis (advisor N. El Karoui, Univ. Paris 6).

1984 - 1989 : Maître-Assistante, University of Le Mans.

1989 - 1992 : Maître de Conférences, University Pierre et Marie Curie.

1991 : Habilitation à diriger des recherches (UPMC).

1992- 2006 : Professor, University Paris-Ouest, Nanterre.

2006 - : Professor, Ecole Polytechnique.

2010 - 2014 : Chair of the Applied Maths Department.

2011- 2018: Member of the Administration Comittee of the Ecole polytechnique.

2019-2024:  Senior member  of the  Institut Universitaire de France. 

Honors and Awards :

Chevalier de la légion d’honneur.

"La Recherche" Award, 2013.

Alan Tayler lecture, ECMI 2014.

Invited Speaker to the 7th European Congress of Mathematics (Berlin 2016).

Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.

Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France (2019-2024).

Fellow of the Academia Europaea.

Foreign Corresponding Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.

Sectional Invited Speaker, ICM 2022 (St Petersburg).

IMS Medallion Lecture (2023 INFORMS Applied Probability Conference). 

Research Interests :

Probability and Stochastic Processes

Interacting particle systems, stochastic particle methods

Probabilistic interpretation of nonlinear partial differential equations

Measure–valued processes

Quasi-stationary distributions

Random models for adaptive evolution

Mathematical modeling for ecology and biodiversity

Mathematical modeling for hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis

Edition service

2018 -2021: Editor-in-Chief of Stochastic Processes and their Applications.

2000 - 2006 : Associate Editor for Annals of Probability.

2003 - 2009, 2012-2015, 2021- : Associate Editor for Stochast. Process. and Appl. 

2008 - : Associate Editor forMathematics in Action.

2012 - : Associate Editor forSMAI textbooks

2012 - 2015 : Associate Editor for Bernoulli

2013-: Associate Editor for Stochastic and Partial Differential Equations.

2016 - 2018: Associate Editor for Annals of Applied Probability.

2018-: Member of the Editorial Board of Lecture Notes on  Mathematical Modelling of the Life Sciences.

Main Scientific Animation

PI of the ERC Advanced grant SINGER.

Director of the research group PEIPS (Population Evolution and Interacting Particle Systems) in CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique.

Head of the Chair "Mathematical Modeling and Biodiversity", Veolia , Ecole Polytechnique, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (since 2009).

Coordinator of the Research project INSERM-Plan Cancer M3PN "Modélisation mathématique de syndromes myéloprolifératifs" (since 2018)