Resources available online :

After the publication of our paper Jay et al. (2022) in PLOS Biology, part of our methodology was questioned in a bioRxiv preprint and in a subsequent review paper using the material presented in the bioRxiv preprint. In order to clarify the different points of misunderstanding that have led to these criticisms, in this document we provide a response that, we hope, demonstrates the validity of our approach. A new preprint also offers supplementary analyses reinforcing our conclusions. This debate is grounded on the very interesting question of which control scenario is appropriate to assess the efficiency of the sheltering effect, and we hope to contribute to this discussion with sound logical arguments and relevant biological concepts. Unfortunately for us, PLOS Biology does not seem to recognize the value of scientific debate and retracted the paper 3 years after its publication. Never mind, we'll publish it in a more interesting journal (one that actually adheres to the principles of the COPE instead of citing them every other line in a top secret correspondence).

A text (in French) paying tribute to the many contributions of Elisabeta Vergu to mathematical modelling in epidemiology can be found here.

"Promoting interactions between mathematics and life, Earth and human sciences": an article presenting the French institute of Mathematics for Planet Earth published in the CNRS SHS newsletter (in French).

Amandine Véber

CNRS Senior Researcher in Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling in Life Sciences at MAP5 (Université Paris Cité)

Forthcoming events :

The second Open Day of the Coordinated Action on Infectious Disease Modelling of ANRS-MIE, focusing on "Modelling tools for vaccination", will be held at Sorbonne University on March 24th, 2025: more here.

The 2025 Sciences & Medias Day, on the theme "Journalists and scientists: who controls whom?" will take place at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris) and online, on March 28th, 2025: more here (in French).

Special issue on "Celebrating Alison Etheridge's contribution to mathematical population genetics" published in Theoretical Population Biology.

Open science :

The SMAI & EDP Sciences journals in applied maths published in open access under a collaborative publication model without author publication charges : more here, or in this article by CNRS Mathematics.

Among these journals, ESAIM: Probability & Statistics publishes original research and survey papers in the area of probability and statistics. It covers theoretical and practical aspects and, in particular, methodological developments with application in other scientific areas are more than welcome. Submit your work there!

Mathematics and modelling at the interface with life, human and Earth sciences :

Mathematical Modelling and Biodiversity: a chair program involving Ecole Polytechnique, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Veolia Environnement and Fondation X (website in French).

Institute of Mathematics for Planet Earth: a national institute to foster collaborations at the interface between mathematics and Earth, life and human sciences (website in French).

Coordinated Action on "Infectious Disease Modelling" of ANRS - MIE: a research network on the modelling of the dynamics of infectious diseases.

Thematic network "Mathematics, Health, Life Sciences": a research network on mathematics for medical and life sciences supported by CNRS (website in French).

PEPR Maths-Vives: a national research programme aims to bring mathematics in dialogue with other disciplines in order to innovate for the living, the environment and the society (website in French).

MODCOV19: a website on French modelling actions in response to the Covid-19 sanitary crisis (in French).

Research Interests

I work on stochastic processes, all of them being more or less linked to population and transmission models:

Measure-valued stochastic population models with various applications in biology, chemistry, ...
Spatial population genetics models (spatial Lambda-Fleming-Viot process in particular),
Exchangeable coalescents and coalescing Lévy processes,
Statistical aspects (inference, in particular) of these models,
Models of resource sharing in communication networks.