Sophie Schbath

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Sophie Schbath (born 1969) is a French statistician whose research concerns the statistics of pattern matching in strings and formal languages, particularly as applied to genomics. She is a director of research for the French National Institute for Research in Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), and a former president of the French BioInformatics Society.

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Education and career

Schbath was born on 19 December 1969 in Nantes. She earned a master's degree in stochastic modeling and statistics in 1992 from Paris-Sud University, [1] and completed a Ph.D. in 1995 at Paris Descartes University. Her dissertation was Étude asymptotique du nombre d'occurrences d'un mot dans une chaîne de Markov et application à la recherche de mots de fréquence exceptionnelle dans les séquences d'ADN. [1] [2] She earned a habilitation in 2003 at the University of Évry Val d'Essonne. [1]

After postdoctoral research in 1996 at the University of Southern California, Schbath became a researcher for INRAE. She became a director of research in 2006, and director of research (1st class) in 2018. She was president of the French BioInformatics Society from 2010 to 2016. [1]

She was involved in transitioning to research that supports a low-carbon footprint, aligning with the 1.5°C goal set by the Paris Agreement [3] .

Books

Schbath is the coauthor of the book ADN, mots et modèles, with S. Robin and F. Rodolphe, BELIN, 2003, translated into English as DNA, Words and Models: Statistics of Exceptional Words, Cambridge University Press, 2005. [4]

She is also one of the contributors to the book Applied Combinatorics on Words, which lists its author as the collective pseudonym M. Lothaire. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-05-08
  2. ↑ Sophie Schbath at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2022/07/02/researchers-alter-their-habits-to-reduce-carbon-footprint_5988738_7.html?random=456806994
  4. ↑ Reviews of DNA, Words and Models:
  5. ↑ Reviews of Applied Combinatorics on Words:
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