Mireille Bousquet-Mélou

Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born 12 May 1967) is a French mathematician who specializes in enumerative combinatorics and who works as a senior researcher for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the computer science department (LaBRI) of the University of Bordeaux.

[1] Bousquet-Mélou was born in Albi, the second daughter of two high school teachers, and grew up in Pau where her family moved when she was three.

[2] She studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1986 to 1990,[1] as the only woman in her entering class of mathematicians,[2] and earned an agrégation in mathematics in 1989,[1] with Xavier Gérard Viennot as her mentor in combinatorics.

[2] She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Bordeaux in 1991, with a dissertation on the enumeration of orthogonally convex polyominos supervised by Viennot.

[3] She joined CNRS as a junior researcher in 1990, and completed a habilitation at Bordeaux in 1996.