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Lenka Zdeborová is a Professor of Physics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where she leads the Statistical Physics Computation Laboratory. She received her PhD in Physics from the University of Paris-Sud and Charles University Prague in 2008. Zdeborová spent several years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow. From 2010 to 2020, she worked at CNRS, contributing to the Institute of Theoretical Physics in CEA Saclay, France. Her accolades include the CNRS bronze medal in 2014, the Philippe Meyer prize in 2016, the ERC Starting Grant in 2016, and the Irène Joliot-Curie prize in 2018, along with the Gibbs lectureship awarded by AMS and the Neuron Fund award in 2021. In 2025, she is set to receive an ERC Advanced Grant. She is also an editorial board member for various journals including Journal Physics, Physical Review E, and more. Her expertise encompasses statistical physics applications, advanced mean field methods, replica methods, message-passing algorithms, and challenges in machine learning and optimization. Additionally, she enjoys bridging the theoretical underpinnings of physics with mathematics and computer science.
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