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Valérie Chavez-Demoulin

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Valérie 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 career

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Chavez-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]

Recognition

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Chavez-Demoulin is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Valérie Chavez", Faculty profiles, HEC Lausanne, retrieved 2021-10-15
  2. ^ Valérie Chavez-Demoulin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2021-10-15
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