Personal profile
Biography
Professor Sylvie Méléard is a distinguished mathematician and Professor of Applied Mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique, France, where she also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. As Head of the Mathematical Modeling and Biodiversity Chair since 2009, she fosters interdisciplinary collaborations between mathematicians and biologists. Her expertise in probability theory, stochastic processes, and measure-valued processes drives her research on population dynamics, evolutionary ecology, bacterial biology, and hematology. Leading the PEIPS research group at the Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (CMAP), she is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced SINGER project, exploring stochastic dynamics of single cells, and the ITMO Cancer Aviesan-Inserm project on myeloproliferative neoplasms.
Professor Méléard’s academic journey began at the Ecole normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses (1977–1981), followed by her agregation in mathematics (1981) and a doctorate from Pierre and Marie Curie University (1984). She earned her habilitation in 1991 and held professorships at the Paris Nanterre University before joining Ecole Polytechnique in 2006. She has authored influential books, including Stochastic Models for Structured Populations, with Vincent Bansaye (2015) and Modèles aléatoires en écologie et évolution (2016).
Her contributions have earned her prestigious accolades, including the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize for Woman Scientist of the Year (2024) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lecture (2023).