Professor of Biostatistics
Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA)
Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modeling in economics and statistics (LIDAM)
About me
I obtained a Master Degree in Mathematics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 1998. I then worked for 7 years at the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and became the primary statistician of the EORTC Lung Cancer Group, being therefore responsible for the statistical set-up, design, implementation, analyses and reporting of several Phase II and Phase III trials in lung cancer and mesothelioma patients.
Within EORTC, I was also a member of the Treatment Outcome Research Group, the Elderly Task Force, and coordinator of the EORTC Independent Data Monitoring Committee. In parallel, I completed under the supervision of Prof. Paul Janssen and Prof. Luc Duchateau a PhD in 2005 at the Center for Statistics, Hasselt University, in the field of survival analysis (frailty models).
Since 2007, I’m professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at the UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) where I’m attached to the Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA), one of the research centers of the Louvain Institute for Data Analysis and Modeling in economics and statistics (LIDAM), and at the Louvain School of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (LSBA), which is part of the Faculty of Science (SC). From 2019 to 2022, I have been chairing the ISBA research center and since 2022 I have been elected President of the LIDAM Institute.
My main interests
- Survival Data Analysis , and in particular frailty models and cure models
- Joint Models for Longitudinal and Survival Data
- Design and analysis of clinical trials
- Oncology data