Florence Merlevède is a French probability theorist whose research interests focus on dependent and weakly dependent random variables, including Bernstein inequalities and

central limit theorem In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) states that, under appropriate conditions, the Probability distribution, distribution of a normalized version of the sample mean converges to a Normal distribution#Standard normal distributi ...

s for these variables. She is a professor in the laboratory for analysis and applied mathematics at

Gustave Eiffel University Gustave Eiffel University () is a public university located throughout Metropolitan France. The university's namesake is French engineer, Gustave Eiffel. Gustave Eiffel University is known for its civil engineering and urban planning research ...

, associated with the research group on probability and statistics there. Merlevède earned her Ph.D. at

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...

in 1996, with a dissertation jointly supervised by Denis Bosq and Magda Peligrad. With Peligrad and Sergey Utev, she is coauthor of the book ''Functional Gaussian Approximation for Dependent Structures'' (Oxford University Press, 2019). She is on the editorial board of the journal ''

Probability Theory and Related Fields '' Probability Theory and Related Fields'' is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by Springer. Established in 1962, it was originally named ''Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und verwandte Gebiete'', with the English replacin ...

''. In 2021, Merlevède was named a Fellow of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts ...

, "for outstanding contributions to the field of dependent random variables, especially for fundamental results concerning the conditional limit theorems, rates of convergence in the central limit theorem, and large random matrices".

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