PHD/Postdoctoral Researchers

Promotion of PHD Theses

2010-2014Marco Munda. “Beyond the shared frailty model. Goodness-of-fit, decreasing heterogeneity, and spatial dependence”.
Promotor : Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain)
Funding: FSR/FRIA
2010-2014Anne Benoit. “Estimation of the efficacy of seasonal influenza vaccines: Vaccine development, statistical modelling and trial design”.
Promotor : Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain)
Funding: GSK-Biologicals
2011-2014Federico Rotolo. “Frailty multi-state models for the analysis of survival data from multicenter clinical trials”.
Promotors: Monica Chiogna (Universita degli Studi di Padova) and Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain)
Funding: PhD student at Dipartmento di Scienze Statistiche (Universita degli Studi di Padova) , Visiting PhD student at UCLouvain
2011-2017Aurélie Bertrand. “Survival models with a cured fraction and mismeasured covariates”.
Promotors: Ingrid Van Keilegom (UCLouvain/KULeuven) and Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain)
Funding: Teaching assistant (LSBA-SC, UClouvain)
2012-2016Sylvie Scolas. “Modelling interval-censored event times in the presence of a cure fraction: From building to refining”.
Promotors: Anouar El Ghouch (UCLouvain) and Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain)
Funding:  UCLouvain – ARC Project
2012-2018Mailis Amico. “Semi-parametric mixture cure models”.
Promoters: Ingrid Van Keilegom (UCLouvain/KULeuven) and Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain)
Funding: Teaching assistant until 2016 LSBA-SC, UClouvain), ERC Ingrid Van Keilegom from 2016
2015-2020Anne-Sophie Lambert. “Quelles méthodes utiliser pour réaliser une analyse d’efficacité d’interventions complexes, à partir de base de données de routine, en tenant compte des caractéristiques des bénéficiaires et du contexte ? ”.
Promotors: Jean Macq (UCLouvain) and Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain)
Funding : Teaching assistant (Faculté Santé Publique, UCLouvain)
2017-ongoingAntoine Soetewey. “Assurabilité des personnes ayant eu un cancer ou avec un risque aggravé”.
Promotors : Michel Denuit (UCLouvain) and Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain)
Funding: Teaching assistant (LSBA-SC, UClouvain)
2019-2022Quentin Le Coënt (Université de Bordeaux). “Développement de modèles pour la validation de critères de substitution : comparaison des approches causales et non causales pour des données de méta-analyses”.
Promotors : Virginie Rondeau (Université de Bordeaux) and Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain)
Funding : Université de Bordeaux
2020-ongoingHortense Doms. “Joint modelling of a survival endpoint and several (non-continuous) longitudinal markers.
Promotors: Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain) and Philippe Lambert (ULiège/UCLouvain)
Funding: UCLouvain – ARC Project
2020-2023Chikeola Ladekpo. “SMARTER: Statistical model-based methods for the detection of outlier cluster in statistical monitoring” – PhD Interrupted
Promotors: Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain) and Brigitte Cheuvart (GSK Biologicals)
Funding: Subvention Doctorat en Entrprise, Walloon Region
2021-ongoingFanny Hoogstoel. “Estimation of the relative survival of patients suffering from pathologies: analysis, comparison and development of techniques for application to access to insurance products with a real or perceived aggravated risk”
Promotors: Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain) and Michel Denuit (UCLouvain)
Funding: Teaching assistant (LSBA-SC, UClouvain)
2022-ongoingAurèle Bartolomeo. “Establishing a better access to life and health insurance covers for risks that are either non-standard or currently perceived as non-standard.”
Promotors: Michel Denuit (UCLouvain) and Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain)
Funding: Teaching assistant (LSBA, UCLouvain).
2022-ongoingLuc Boone (Fellow EORTC). “Intercurrent events in oncology clinical trials”
Promotors: Catherine Legrand (UCLouvain) and Saskia Litière (EORTC)
Funding: Fellow EORTC

Post-doc researchers

2008-2009Stephane Laurent
Funding : IAP Network
2013-2014Alina Nicolae
Funding : UCLouvain ARC research project
2015-2017Check N’Dour
Funding : Walloon Region Beware Project STADOC
2016-2018Antoine Barbieri
Funding : IAP Network
2016-ongoingLieven Desmet
Funding : Walloon region Biowin Project SMART (100%, 2016-2018) – Partnership CluePoints (20%, since 2018)
2019-2021Leandro Garcia Barrado
Funding : Walloon region FIRST Entreprise Doctor  
2019-2022Mickaël De Backer
Funding : Walloon region Biowin Project BENEFIT
2023-ongoingQuentin Le Coënt
Funding : UCLouvain ARC research project
2023-ongoingPatricia Ortega Jimenez
Funding : EOS KULeuven/UCLouvain research project

Member of PHD/HDR Jury

2008Goele Massonet, PhD, Center for Statistics. Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
2010Julie Francart, PhD, IREC, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2011Evelien Vaes, PhD, IREC, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2011Klara Goethals, PhD, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
2012Jonathan Jaeger, PhD, ISBA-IMMAQ, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2012Yassin Mazroui, PhD, PhD, INSERM U897 – ISPED, Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France
2012Bart Van Rompaye, PhD, PhD, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
2013Agnès Chaumont, PhD, LTAP, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2013Bernard Francq, PhD, ISBA-IMMAQ, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2013Séverine Henrard, PhD, IRSS, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2013Yehenew Getachew Kifle, PhD, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
2013David Dejardin, PhD, Faculty of Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
2013Mbéry Sène, PhD, INSERM U897 – ISPED, Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France
2014Mioara Alina Nicolae, PhD, Faculty of Sciences, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
2014Mathieu Pigeon, PhD, ISBA-IMMAQ, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2014Aleksandar Sujica, PhD, ISBA-IMMAQ, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2014Elzery Andrinopoulou, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014Nathalie Grafféo, PhD, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université, France
2014Stefan Michiels, HDR, Université de Paris-Sud, Paris, France
2015Isabelle Tromme, PhD, IREC, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2015Diana Pietzner, PhD, faculty of Medicine, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2015Majda Talamakrouni, PhD, ISBA-IMMAQ, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2016Agnieska Krol, PhD, INSERM U897 – ISPED, Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France
2016Aysun Cetinyürek Yavuz, PhD, Faculty of Sciences, ULiège, Liège, Belgium
2017Vincent Bremhorst, PhD,  ISBA-IMMAQ, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2019Vivien Goepp, PhD, Université de Paris (Paris-Descartes), Paris, France
2019Florian Pechon, PhD, ISBA-LIDAM, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2019Gaëlle Romain, PhD, Université Bourgogne Franche-Compté, Dijon, France
2019Aniko Lovik, PhD, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium
2019Valérie Jooste, HDR, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
2019Casimir Sofeu, PhD, INSERM U897 – ISPED, Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France
2020Manon Martin, PhD, ISBA-LIDAM, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2020Kassu Mehari Beyene, PhD, ISBA-LIDAM, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2020Oswaldo Gressani, PhD, ISBA-LIDAM, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2021Joris Giai, PhD, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, France
2021Shaima Belhechmi, PhD, Institut Gustave Roussy, Université Paris Sainclay, Paris, France
2021Rebecca Marion, PhD, ISBA-LIDAM, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2021Sophie Mathieu, PhD, ISBA-LIDAM, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2022Derek Dinart, PhD, INSERM U897 – ISPED, Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France
2022Vaiva Deltuvaite-Thomas, PhD, Center for Statistics. Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
2022Johan Verbeeck, PhD, Center for Statistics. Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
2022Georgios Kantidakis, PhD, Leiden University, The Netherlands