Sylvie Meleard

Coordonnées

Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées
École Polytechnique
Route de Saclay
91128 Palaiseau Cedex, FRANCE

Email : sylvie.meleard@polytechnique.edu

Responsabilities

Professor Emeritus,  Ecole Polytechnique

Head of the Chaire Modélisation Mathématique et Biodiversité (Mathematical Modeling of Biodiversity ) (Véolia Environnement, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Ecole Polytechnique).www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/~chaire-mmb/ 

PI of the ERC Advanced SINGER: Stochastic dynamics of sINgle cells: Growth, Emergence and Resistance.www.ip-paris.fr/erc-singer-101054787-adg-stochastic-dynamics-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.

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

Member of the scientific Comittee of the Institut Mathématiques - Planète Terre.

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics

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

Former member of the Evaluation Committee of Inria.

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.

2018-2025 : Responsable of the Graduate Studies : Master Mathématiques et Sciences du Vivant  (Mathematics for Life Sciences).

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).

Irène Joliot-Curie Award - Femme scientifique de l'année 2024.

Senior Fellow of the Hong-Kong Institute of Advanced Studies (CityU Hong-Kong) 

Research Interests

Probability and Stochastic Processes

Interacting particle systems, stochastic particle method

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- 2024: Associate Editor for Stochast. Process. and Appl.

2008 - : Associate Editor for Mathematics in Action.

2012 - : Associate Editor for SMAI 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.

2019-  : Member of the Editorial Board of Comptes Rendus Mathématiques de l'Académie des Sciences.

2025 -  : Co-responsable avec Olivier Faugeras d’un numéro thématique des Comptes Rendus (Avadémie des Sciences) Biologies à l’interface entre mathématiques et biologie 

Main Scientific Animation

PI of the ERC Advanced grant SINGER (Stochastic Dynamics of Single Cells: Growth, Emergence and Resistance)

Co-Director (with Eva Locherbach) 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" (2018-2021 et 2022-2025)

PhD students

• Pierre-Luc Morien, PhD 1996. MC Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.

• Benjamin Jourdain, PhD 1998. Professeur Ecole des Ponts.

• Nicolas Fournier, PhD 1999. Professeur Sorbonne Université.

• Hélène Guérin, PhD 2002. Professeur UQAM, Montréal.

• Joaquin Fontbona, PhD 2004. Professeur Universad de Chile, Santiago

• Nicolas Champagnat, PhD 2004. Directeur de recherche Inria, Nancy.

• Chi Viet Tran, PhD 2006. Directeur de recherche Inria, Lille.

• Jose-Luis Garmendia (co-direction with M.E. Caballero, UNAM), PhD 2009. Chercheur 

• Denis Villemonais, PhD 2011. Professeur Université de Strasbourg.

• Florent Barret (co-direction with A. Bovier, Bonn), PhD 2012. MC Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.

• Camille Coron, PhD 2013. CPJ INRAE AgroParistech. HDR 2026. 

• Charline Smadi Lasserre, PhD 2015. Chercheur INRAE. HDR

• Manon Costa, PhD 2015. MC Université Toulouse. HDR  2025. 

• Hélène Leman, PhD2016. chercheur Inria Lyon. HDR 2024. 

• Tristan Roget, PhD  2018. Travaille dans le privé. 

• Céline Bonnet, PhD  2020.  chercheur Inria Lyon.

• Claire Ecotière (co-direction R. Ferrière). PhD  2023. Ingénieure de recherche

• Ignacio Madrid Canales  (co-direction M. El Karoui). PhD 2024. Post-doc Tokyo. 

• Ana Fernandez Baranda  (co-direction V. Bansaye). Soutenance Juillet 2026

• Anouar Jeddi  (co-direction N. Champagnat).

• Alexandre Perrin  (co-direction M. Doumic).

• Mateo Deangeli Bravo  (co-directionV.C. Tran).