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, founding member of the LMU Open Science Center and president of the German Region of the International Biometric Society.

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 of the German Region of the International Biometric Society (elected 2022).
• Associate Editor of Statistics in Medicine
• Associate Editor of Journal of Classification
• Editorial Board Member of Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
• 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)

 

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