Stéphanie Chevalier

Stéphanie Chevalier

Postdoc in bioinformatics (systems biology)

About me

My main personality trait is certainly curiosity. For biology and computer science as expected, but also for pedagogy, linguistics, history, urbanism... I like wandering through various topics but also, in a more palpable way, through various landscapes during hikes (combined with the pleasure of photography, as you can guess from this website section headers). I can't play tennis as often anymore, but I enjoy keeping up with tennis and rugby news. ...and perhaps I should also admit that, above all in daily life, I love cooking and sharing good meals! As expectations, I look forward to continuing my exploration of new places and landscapes, especially to connect with new people and ways of life.

I particularly cherish every little joyful moment, probably because of a challenge I face: an orphan disease significantly limits my daily life and disrupts it in unpredictable ways. Don’t be surprised if my energy and abilities shift from one moment to the next — ranging from being lively and spirited to struggling with basic tasks like walking or speaking. However, this challenge hasn’t stopped me from reaching where I am today!

Some liked quotes

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’“
Isaac Asimov

“The scientist is not the person who gives the right answers, it is the one who asks the right questions.”
Claude Lévi-Strauss

“A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.”
Vera Nazarian

“[…] we sometimes invoke the law of nature. But there are no laws in nature. There are only phenomena. People make the laws.”
François Jacob (quote from the archive Le Monde - 20 novembre 1972)

To salute my (great) statistician colleagues:
“To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.”
Ronald Fisher