She is the director of the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology in Bremen,[1] and the president-elect of the International Biometric Society.
[2] Pigeot was born in 1960, in Wanne-Eickel, a town in northwestern Germany that in 1975 became incorporated into Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia.
[3] She earned a diploma in statistics and sociology at the Technical University of Dortmund in 1985.
[1] She completed her Ph.D. there in 1989, with the dissertation Schätzer des gemeinsamen Odds Ratios in geschichteten Kontingenztafeln [Estimator of the joint odds ratio in stratified contingency tables] supervised by Ursula Gather.
[2] Pigeot was the 2010 recipient of the Susanne Dahms Medal of the International Biometric Society (German Region).