Valérie Chavez-Demoulin
Valérie Chavez-Demoulin is a Swiss statistician whose research includes statistical models of extreme events and their application to risk management. She is a professor of statistics at HEC Lausanne.
Education and career
[edit]Chavez-Demoulin studied mathematics and statistics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, earning a master's degree there[1] before completing her Ph.D. in 1999. Her dissertation, Two Problems in Environmental Statistics: Capture-Recapture Analysis and Smooth Extremal Models, concerned environmental statistics, and was supervised by Anthony C. Davison.[2]
After postdoctoral research with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) in Davos, she became a researcher at ETH Zurich and a hedge fund manager before taking her present position at HEC Lausanne.[1]
Recognition
[edit]Chavez-Demoulin is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Valérie Chavez", Faculty profiles, HEC Lausanne, retrieved 2021-10-15
- ^ Valérie Chavez-Demoulin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2021-10-15
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Four questions for Valérie Chavez, HEConomist
