About

Bio

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Statistical Department of the University of Toronto, conducting research in the Bayesian Demography Lab under the supervision of Monica Alexander. My current research focus on racial/ethnic disparity in the experience of parental loss in the US.

I was a PhD student at UCLouvain (Belgium), in the Center for Demographic Research (DEMO) under the supervision of Bruno Masquelier. My thesis focused on mortality estimation at the subnational level using Bayesian methods. I am interested in statistics, applied mathematics, R, data visualization, open science and science of science.

Outside of work, I am a full time dad.

Experience

Before starting my PhD, I worked at the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) where I conducted statistical analyses on different research projects: evaluating health profiles and health needs of non-EU migrants arriving in Greece with Médecins du Monde data; assessing the impact of the 2015 Earthquake on hospital admissions in Kathmandu (Nepal) using Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital data; estimating the civilian mortality during the Syrian conflict focusing on deaths recorded by the Syrian Violation Documentation Center (VDC). I was also involved in supervising master theses, teaching statistics, data manipulation and visualization.

Education

I did my master in quantitative economics at the Free University Brussels. I trained myself further in statistics by first following an online micromaster in Statistics and Data Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and then, by validating statistics courses at UCLouvain.

I also had the opportunity to follow several workshops (usually 1 week long):