Prof. Dr. Anne-Laure Boulesteix
Short bio
Anne-Laure Boulesteix obtained a diploma in engineering from the Ecole Centrale Paris, a diploma in mathematics from the University of Stuttgart (2001) and a PhD in statistics (2005) from the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich. After a postdoc phase in medical statistics, she joined the Medical School of the University of Munich as a junior professor (2009) and professor (2012). She is working at the interface between biostatistics, machine learning and medicine with a particular focus on metascience and evaluation of methods. She is a steering committee member of the STRATOS initiative and founding member of the LMU Open Science Center.Career
Since May 2012: Associate professor (W2, tenured) at the Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology of the Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich (Germany)
2009-2012: Assistant professor (W1) at the Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology of the Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich (Germany)
2008: Visiting professor of biostatistics at the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich (Germany)
2007-2008: Statistician at the Sylvia Lawry Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research e.V. in Munich (Germany)
2005-2007: Post-doc at the University Hospital „Klinikum Rechts der Isar“ of the Technical University of Munich (Germany)
2002 – 2006: Researcher at the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich (Germany)
Education
2011: French "Habilitation à diriger les recherches", University of Evry Val d'Essonne (near Paris, France)
2005: PhD in Statistics at LMU Munich (Germany)
2001: Diploma in Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart (Germany)
2001: M.Sc. in Engineering (diplôme d'ingénieur) at the Ecole Centrale Paris (France)
1979: Born in Paris (France)
Prizes & Awards
2013: Chikio-Hayashi-Award
2011: Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Award
1996: Concours général des lycées (national academic competition) in Biology, 2nd prize
Scientific activities and duties (selected)
- President-elect of the German Region of the International Biometric Society (elected 2022).
- European Associate Editor of the journal Briefings in Bioinformatics (Oxford University Press, Impact Factor = 6.302) (2017-2021).
- Member of the steering committee and co-chair of the Simulation Panel of the STRATOS initiative (since 2019)
- Council member of the LMU Open Science Center (2017-2021)