About me

​I am an assistant professor in Statistics at the Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA), part of the Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modeling in economics and statistics (LIDAM) of the UCLouvain.

My main research field is extreme value theory, with a focus on environmental applications, the development of statistical methodology for multivariate extremes, high-dimensional modeling, and spatial extremes. Recently, I’ve been particularly interested in topics related to the climate sciences, such as climate extreme event attribution and compound extremes.

Publications

Please see my Google scholar profile.

News

• July 2026: talk “A sub-asymptotic model for bivariate threshold exceedances” at the 7th International Conference on Advances in Extreme Value Analysis and Application to Natural Hazards, EVAN2026, in Delft, the Netherlands.
• May 2026: we’ve organized a workshop on Learning spatio-temporal climate extremes at UCLouvain, see here for more information.
• May 2026: welcome to two new post-doctoral researchers, Caroline Cognot and Tommaso Martini!
• May 2026: Invited talk “A penalized least squares estimator for extreme-value models with multiple extreme directions” at the Workshop on Recent Advances in Extreme Value Analysis in Rabat, Morocco.
• April 2026: New paper “A sub-asymptotic model for bivariate threshold exceedances” (with Mirco Lescart and Philippe Naveau) on arXiv.
• October 2025: Invited talk “A penalized least squares estimator for extreme-value models with multiple extreme directions” at the 65th ISI World Statistics Congress in the Hague, the Netherlands.
• September 2025: Dan Cooley, Tiandong Wang, Jordan Richards and myself will be in charge of organizing the One World Extremes seminar during the next two years.
• September 2025: I have moved from UNamur to UCLouvain.
• August 2025: My first PhD student Anas Mourahib (jointly supervised with Johan Segers) has just defended his thesis: congratulations! He’ll be pursuing a post-doc at Eindhoven University.
• June 2025: New paper “A penalized least squares estimator for extreme-value mixture models” (with Anas Mourahib and Johan Segers) on arXiv.
• June 2025: invited talk “X-Vine models for multivariate extremes” at EVA 2025 in Chapel Hill, USA.
• February 2025: our project EXALT is featured in Daily Science (in French).
• February 2025: invited seminar “Estimating probabilities of multivariate failure sets based on pairwise tail dependence coefficients” in the EVTA seminar series at the VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands.