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Marc Manceau

PhD, Data scientist

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Education

2014 - 2018

PhD, Probabilistic modeling in evolutionary biology

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, ENS et Collège de France, Paris

Prospecting for unconventional hypotheses in biodiversity macroevolution modeling. Work on birth-death models, coalescent models, models of continuous and molecular traits along a tree.
2012 - 2013

Master in Applied Mathematics

Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

Markov processes, stochastic calculus, numerical methods in probability, theoretical statistics.
2010 - 2012

Bachelor in Biology

ENS, Paris

Bachelor in Biology and first year of Master in Ecology, Biodiversity, Evolution. Population dynamics/genetics, genome evolution, modeling approaches in ecology and evolution.
2010 - 2015

\'Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)

, Paris

Successful candidate to the Ecole Normale Supérieure competitive exam.
2008 - 2010

Undergraduate intensive training

Lycée Henri 4, Paris

Life sciences, Geology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics.

Research experience

10.2022 - .

Statistician - Statistics applied to clinical trials

Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Grenoble Alpes (CHUGA), Grenoble, France

Statistics and data analysis/vizualization for clinical trials. Teaching statistics in the University Hospital.
12.2021 - .

Freelance data scientist - Applied statistics and teaching

Grenoble, France

Data science for private contractors (including WHO) and teaching statistics.
11.2018 - 11.2021

Postdoc position - Statistics for epidemiology

ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland

In Tanja Stadler's group.
Probabilistic modeling in epidemiology to study outbreaks using viral genetic sequences.
09.2014 - 08.2018

PhD thesis - Mathematical modeling in macroevolution

École Normale Supérieure and Collège de France, Paris

Supervised by Hélène Morlon and Amaury Lambert.
Probabilistic modeling for the study of life evolution over long time scales.
09.2013 - 03.2014

Internship (placement year) - Fieldwork on herpetofauna

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Nouméa, New Caledonia

Supervised by Hervé Jourdan.
Study of the impact of invasive species on the endemic herpetofauna of New-Caledonia.
01.2013 - 08.2013

Master thesis - Mathematical modeling of recombination

École des Ponts ParisTech, Paris

Supervised by Jean-François Delmas.
Taking into account recombination into coalescent models.
02.2012 - 08.2012

Internship (M1) - Mathematical modeling

Collège de France, Paris

Supervised by Amaury Lambert and Hélène Morlon.
Individual-based modeling of diversification.

Teaching experience

01.2023 - .
~20h

Statistics for the Health

CHUGA, Grenoble, France

Statistics for clinical trials or epidemiology: basic concepts, linear models (LM), generalized linear models (GLM), mixed models (LMM and GLMM), survival analysis.
05.2022 - .
~80h

Data Science and data visualisation

ESTIAM, Lyon, France

Data visualisation and data manipulation using R, tidyverse and ggplot2. Summary statistics for central tendency, dispersion, and bivariate data. Discrete and continuous probability distributions. Linear regression.
09.2022 - 10.2022
~20h

Time Series Analysis

ESTIAM, Lyon, France

Time series analysis using R. Additive and multiplicative models, trend, seasonality, autocorrelation. Auto-regressive and moving average models (ARIMA). Forecasting.
10.2019 - 11.2021
~50h

Computational Biology

ETH, Zürich and Basel

Introduction to phylogenetic methods: sequence alignment, models of molecular evolution, models of continuous trait evolution, models of diversification, Bayesian framework.
10.2019 - 06.2021
~10h

Student seminar Computational Biology

ETH, Zürich and Basel

Choice and discussion of relevant papers around the modeling of life evolution.
09.2015 - 06.2018
~180h

Informatics, Mathematics and Statistics

Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

Introduction to programming for second-year biology students: tutorials in Python. Mathematics and Statistics for third year biology students: dynamical systems for biology modeling, statistics and hypothesis testing in biology.
09.2015 - 06.2018
~10h

Short Master courses on macroevolution modeling

École Polytechnique and ENS, Paris

Modeling phenotypic evolution along a phylogenetic tree for the master Maths-SV. A short course on trait evolution modeling for the master EBE.
09.2014 - 06.2015
~60h

Informatics

Lycée Henri 4, Paris

Informatics basics for first year undergraduate students. Informatics projects for second year undergraduate students.
09.2010 - 06.2011
~10h

Mathematics

Animaths, Paris

Volunteering to teach mathematics to high school students in disadvantaged areas.

Supervision of students

03.2021 - 06.2021

Zoé Vaquette

Research Project

A population genetics guide to better understand SARS-CoV-2 variants
11.2020 - 07.2021

Antoine Zwaans

Master's thesis

Reconstructing cell lineage trees in developmental biology
07.2020 - 08.2020

Remo Bättig

Research Project

Working on an inference method for a logistic birth-death process
02.2020 - 06.2020

Jérémy Andréoletti

Research Project

Total-evidence inference of the cetacean diversity
02.2020 - 05.2020

Antoine Zwaans

Research Project

Inferring the prevalence of outbreaks from viral sequences and occurrences

Reviewing activity

Reviewing experience with numerous scientific journals, including: Annals of Applied Statistics, Bioinformatics, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Ecology Letters, Evolution, Nature, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Science, Systematic Biology .

Other information

Programming skills

Scientific: Python, R, Scilab, Ocaml
Web:PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL
Other: LaTeX, bash

Languages

French: native language.
English: good working command.
German: basic knowledge.
Spanish: basic knowledge.

Hobbies

Water: Scuba diving (CMAS Instructor **), free diving, windsurfing.
Mountain: Ski touring, rock climbing, mountaineering, trekking.
Photography: Naturalist pictures.