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Catherine Labruère Chazal serves as a Lecturer at the Institute of Mathematics of Burgundy (IMB), UMR CNRS 5584, within the University of Burgundy's Faculty of Science and Technology. She is an active member of the Statistics, Probability, Optimization and Control (SPOC) research team and holds significant administrative responsibilities including President of the L1 jury, Chair of Parcoursup and Study in France application review committees, and Head of Mathematics for L1 AGIL programs.
Her research demonstrates exceptional interdisciplinary breadth, anchored in statistical methodology development. Primary expertise includes topological data analysis, functional principal components analysis, and biostatistical modeling, with applications spanning archaeology (computer-assisted pottery reconstruction), microbiology (Candida albicans pathogenesis), evolutionary biology (tooth morphology and echinoderm architecture), perinatal health (birth-weight curve modeling), and social sciences (ageism in fashion media and adolescent sports psychology). This cross-domain approach highlights the versatility of statistical frameworks in solving complex real-world problems.
Publication trends since 2007 reveal consistent methodological innovation in statistical theory, particularly in handling high-dimensional and topological data structures. Her work increasingly bridges theoretical advances with practical applications in health sciences and cultural studies, evidenced by collaborations with medical researchers on perinatal networks and microbiologists studying fungal pathogenesis. Recent publications indicate growing engagement with social science questions, notably age representation in media.
Within the IMB structure, she contributes to the SPOC team's mission of advancing research in stochastic processes, optimization theory, and statistical learning. Her teaching portfolio directly supports this research ecosystem through courses in machine learning (Python), algorithms (C++), and statistical methodology for doctoral students, fostering the next generation of quantitative researchers.
