Sylvie Méléard

Coordonnées

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

Tél : 01.69.33.46.42
Email : sylvie.meleard@polytechnique.edu

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).

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

    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- 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.

    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)