Valérie Chavez-DemoulinValérie 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 careerChavez-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] RecognitionChavez-Demoulin is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.[3] References
External links
|