Our team and skills
The SMCS brings together a dozen statistical consultants with a wide range of skills, forming a wonderful multidisciplinary team.
Indeed, in addition to their Master’s degree or PhD in Statistics, each one of the SMCS consultants has a background in another field, such as Psychology, Political Science, Civil Engineering, Business Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry and Bioengineering. Several SMCS members also worked in the private sector before joining the UCLouvain family.
As a result, the SMCS has developed a wide range of expertise, enabling it to work on projects involving medical, biological and omics data; survey, psychological and sociological data; textual, linguistic and social network data; corporate and tracking data...
In addition, for very specific projects, the team's consultants do not hesitate to call on members of other UCLouvain entities, invaluable for their specialized know-how in some data analysis-related fields. These associated consultants carry out all or part of their duties within the framework of the SMCS's activities and missions and regularly collaborate with its members, although they are not assigned to the platform. Associated consultants include professors, researchers and PhD students in statistics, as well as consultants from other UCLouvain entities whose work is similar to that of the platform's in-house consultants.
When you call upon our services and submit a consulting request on our website, you are always redirected to the person best suited to meet your needs, based on skills and availability.
The SMCS also relies on associated trainers to enrich the training courses offered with their experience in the field.
consultants Alain Guillet Aurélie Bertrand Benjamin Colling Catherine Rasse Céline Bugli Lieven Desmet Manon Martin Nathalie Lefèvre Séverine Guisset |
associated consultants Aline Van maanen Antoine Soetewey Axelle Loriot Bernadette Govaerts Bruno Masquelier Bruno Schoumaker Catherine Legrand Chloé Marchal, stagiaire Christian Ritter Elise Bertrand, stagiaire Eugen Pircalabelu Fanny Hoogstoel Jérôme Ambroise Jessica De rongé, stagiaire Jonathan Dedonder Lara Wautier Laurent Gatto Lise Léonard Madeline Vast Mathilde Foulon Michel Denuit Morine Delhelle Nicolas Schtickzelle Sébastien De valeriola Sébastien Van bellegem Thomas François Valérie Dormal Vincent Lorant Vincent Vandenberghe |
trainers Alain Guillet Aurélie Bertrand Benjamin Colling Catherine Rasse Céline Bugli Lieven Desmet Manon Martin Nathalie Lefèvre Séverine Guisset |
associated trainers Formateurs hors UCLouvain Antoine Soetewey Axelle Loriot Bernadette Govaerts Christian Ritter Damien De meyere Eric Lecoutre Fanny Hoogstoel Hubert Naets Jonathan Dedonder Lara Wautier Laurent Gatto Lise Léonard Madeline Vast Mathilde Foulon Morine Delhelle Patrick Watrin Thomas François Valérie Dormal Vincent Lorant Vincent Vandenberghe |
The statistical techniques mastered by the team's consultants include data preparation and descriptive statistics, regression and mixed models, parametric and non-parametric statistics, exploratory and confirmatory multivariate analyses, experimental design and sample size calculation, Bayesian statistics, survey methodology, survival analysis and statistical quality control.
As for software, SMCS consultants know, use and train in the use of the "Big 5" (JMP, R, SAS, SPSS and Stata), as well as more specialized software and languages such as LimeSurvey, Python, Minitab and NVivo.