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My Research interests

Statistical climatology and hydrology, extreme value theory, time series analysis, spatial statistics. I am a member of the LSCE EstimR team.

Education and work experience

• Senior Research Scientist (2004-present) at the “Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement”, IPSL-CNRS, France.
• Assistant Professor in the Applied Math Department of Colorado University at Boulder, USA (2002-2004).
• Researcher and project leader of “ClimStat” at the de l’ “Institut Pierre Simon Laplace”, Paris (2001-2002).
• Visiting Scientist at the “National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA” (1998-2001).
• PhD in Statistics from “Colorado State University”, USA (1998). Advisors : Prof. R. Tweedie and Prof. R. Davis.

Professional responsabilities

• Associate Editor for “Annals of Applied Statistics” 2011-present
• Associate Editor for “Extremes” 2007-present

• Associate Editor of Journal of the Korean Statistical Society Present

• Associate Editor for Weather and climate extremes, 2013-2104
• Associate Editor for ” Journal de la Société Française de Statistique” 2009-2013
• Associate editor for “Water Resources Research” 2007-2010
• Associate Editor of “Journal of Climate” 2006-2007
• Elected member of the “Bureau Environnement de la Societ́e Francaise de Statistique” (2007-2012)
• One of five founding members of the IPSL group “SAMA“

Grants & Projects

• Collaborator to the ANR-Trex project lead by Clément Dombry
• Work Package Leader in ANR-MELODY project lead by Ronan Fablet
• Collaborator to the Extremoscope project lead by Robert Vautard
• Collaborator to the LEFE-INSU MultiRisk lead by Clementine Prieur
• Collaborator to the ANR-McSim project lead by Jean-Noel Bacro
• Principal Investigator of the “GIS PEPER” project jan 2010 – dec 2012
• Work Package Leader of “probabilistic modelling of extreme avalanches” within projet ANR MOPERA
  (MOdelisation Probabiliste pour l’Evaluation du Risque Avalanche) lead by Nicolas Eckert, 2009-2012
• Work Package Leader of WP3 (Extremes Events) of “FP7 European grant ACQWA (Assessing Climate impacts on the Quantity and quality of WAter), 2008-2011, lead by Martin Beniston
• Principal Investigator of the “ Agence National de la Recherche” project “AssimilEx”, 2006- 2009
• Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation grant (USA) “Development of Spatio-temporal and Multi-resolution Methods in Climate”, 2004- 2007
• Work Package Leader (WP3) of the European grant E2C2 “Extremes Events : Cause and Consequences” 2005-2008
• Collaborator of the “The Weather and Climate Impact Assessment Science Initiative”, National Center Atmospheric Research (USA), 2004-2008Teaching experience

Past and current students and postdocs

• Juliette Legrand, Ph student co-advisor with Pierre Ailliot, Valérei Monbet and Nicolas Raillard
• Pauline Rivoire, PhD student co-advisor Olivia Rompannien
• Philomène Le Gall, PhD student co-advisor Anne catherine Favre
• Eva Marqués, PhD student co-advisor Valery Masson and Olivier Mestre
• Gloria Buritica, PhD student co-advisor wth Olivier Wintenberger
• Paul Platzer, Ph student co-advisor with Pierre Tandeao, Jean-Francois Fillipot and Pascal Yiou
• Margaux Zaffran, Master 2
• MAxime Taillardat, co-advisor wth Olivier Mestre and Anne-Laure Fougeres
• Pascal Sielenou, MOPERA postdoc, co-advisor = Nicolas Eckert
• Raphaël de Fondeville (internship), EVT + scoring, co-advisor = Dan Cooley
• Helene Benveniste (internship), EVT + scoring, co-advisors = Rick Katz and Dan Cooley
• Elsa Bernard (internship), EVT + pam, co-advisor = Mathieu Vrac
• Isabelle Smith (postdoc ACQWA), EVT + downscaling
• Anne Sabourin (PhD student, 2010-2012), EVT, co-advisor = Anne-Laure Fougeres
• Théo Rietsch (PhD student, 2009-2011), EVT, co-advisor = Armelle Guillou
• Julie Carreau (postdoc, 2007-2009), EVT + neural networks
• Maalak Kallache (postdoc, 2008-2010), Downscaling, Bayesian Moving Averaging
• Ophelie Guin (PhD student, 2008-2011), Bayesian Hiercharchical Modeling
• Julien Gazeaux (PhhD student, 2007-2010), co-advisor = Slimane Bekki (LATMOS), state-space modeling
• Alexis Hannart (PhD student, 2007-209), change point detections
• Alexandre You (PhD student, 2006-2009), EVT, co-advisor = Armelle Guillou
• Cedric Flecher (PhD, 2006-2009), co-advisors = Denis Allard and Nadine Brisson, skew-normal distributions
• Mathieu Vrac (postdoc, 2006-2008), Downscaling
• Christian Scholzel (postdoc, 2006-2008), EVT
• Pierre Ribereau (postdoc, 2005-2006), EVT
• Dan Cooley (PhD, 2002-2005), EVT
• Deborah Batista and Jenny Fox (master, CU Boulder, 2005-2005), state-space modeling
• Paul Poncet (2004) and Cyrille Jegat (2005) (master), EVT and state-space modeling

Teaching experience

• Lecturer at Ecole Nationale de la Meteorologie, Toulouse 2009-today, time series analysis
• Lecturer at Ecole Centrale Marseille 2008-2009, “Risques climatiques”
• Lecturer at the E2C2 summer school on extremes (Roumania, 2-12 sept 2007)
• Lecturer at a one-week summer school “”Statistiques et Sciences de l’Environnement” in Cargese, 2004
• Extreme value theory, Statistical Methods at Colorado University (Spring 2003)
• Calculus III at Colorado University (Spring 2003)
• Statistical Methods at Colorado University (Fall 2002)
• General Statistics, Introduction to Statistical methods, Statistics for Business Students at Colorado State University (1995-1998)

Distinctions and prizes

• Prix La Recherche, mention Prix du Ministere (with 7 colleagues) (2006)
• Prix Louis D. (2004). Prix scientifique de l’ Institut de France (shared among 12 scientists).
• Young scientists award of The ISI International Conference on Environmental Statistics and Health (2003).
• “The Moyal Prize in Applied Probability”, Colorado State University (1999).
• “Madison Award for Outstanding Achievement”, Colorado State University (1997).