An interview of Barbara Gris
Barbara Gris was recruited as a young researcher by the CNRS in October 2019.
What is your research area?
I work on models of constrained large deformations, with applications to biology and medical imaging. The objective is, from such deformations, to model the evolution of living organisms or to study the shape variability within a population of observed objects.
What did you do before joining the CNRS?
I did my PhD at ENS-Cachan and at the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière (ICM), then a one-year post-doctorate at KTH University in Stockholm. I then obtained a CNRS-Momentum grant for a research project at the Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory (CNRS, Paris & Sorbonne University).
What do you expect from being a mathematician?
I expect to be able to discover a variety of subjects and to take an in-depth interest in them.
What led you to do mathematics?
I have always loved mathematics for their ability to formalize. In high school I had the chance to attend a popularization conference on the notion of distance, especially on a sphere. The lecture was of great interest to me and it is one of the events that led me to do mathematics.
Why choose the CNRS?
The CNRS offers great freedom for research and collaborations.
Contact
Barbara Gris is a junior researcher at the CNRS. She is a member of the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (LJLL - CNRS, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Université).