Lenka Zdeborová
Lenka Zdeborová is a Czech physicist and computer scientist who applies methods from statistical physics to machine learning and constraint satisfaction problems. She is a researcher for CNRS at the Institut de Physique Theorique of the CEA.Education and career
Zdeborová was born in Plzeň. Che earned a master's degree in physics at Charles University in 2004 and, in 2008, completed an international dual doctorate at both Charles University and University of Paris-Sud. Her doctoral advisors were Václav Janiš at Charles University, and Marc Mézard at Paris-Sud.
After postdoctoral research at the Center for Nonlinear Studies of Los Alamos National Laboratory, she became a researcher for the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique in 2010, posted at the Institut de Physique Theorique of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Paris-Saclay. She also earned a habilitation in 2015 at the École normale supérieure.Recognition
Zdeborová won the CNRS Bronze medal in 2014. In 2016 the École normale supérieure gave her the Philippe Meyer prize in theoretical physics. She is the 2018 winner of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize for young female scientists.
