Sophie Achard

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Sophie Achard (born 1977) [1] is a French statistician and neuroscientist whose research concerns the statistics of the pattern of connectivity in the brain. [2] She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria) laboratory at Grenoble Alpes University.

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Education and career

Achard studied mathematics, statistics, and numerical analysis at Jean Monnet University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1999. She earned a master's degree through research on the statistics of mixture models at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble 2000, and completed a Ph.D. there in 2003. [3] Her doctoral dissertation, Mesures de dépendance pour la séparation aveugle de sources : application aux mélanges post non linéaires, was directed by Dinh-Tuan Pham and Christian Jutten. [4] [3] [5]

After postdoctoral research in the Brain Mapping Unit at the University of Cambridge with Edward Bullmore from 2004 to 2007, she returned to Grenoble as a CNRS researcher in 2008, and was promoted to director of research in 2017. [3]

Recognition

Achard received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2023. [6]

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References

  1. Birth year from idRef authority control record, accessed 2023-03-08
  2. Bardin, Jon (26 November 2012), "Study of comatose brains finds changes to highly connected hub areas", Los Angeles Times
  3. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae, Inria Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, retrieved 2023-03-08
  4. Sophie Achard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project; this source incorrectly lists her doctoral advisor as Din-Tao Pham.
  5. "Sophie Achard", Theses.fr, retrieved 2023-03-08
  6. Sophie Achard: Statistiques appliquées aux neurosciences (in French), French National Centre for Scientific Research, 26 January 2023, retrieved 2023-03-08