Sophie Achard

 ( 1977 Births ) 

Sophie Achard (born 1977) is a French statistician and neuroscientist whose research concerns the statistics of the Connectome. 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 at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble 2000, and completed a Ph.D. there in 2003. 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.

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.

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Recognition Achard received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2023.

Birth year from idRef authority control record, accessed 2023-03-08

; this source incorrectly lists her doctoral advisor as Din-Tao Pham.

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