Maria is a Senior Data Mining Statistician at IPSEN Innovation in France. She performs and supports projects related to data analytics on Oncology and Neurology by combining the use of Real-World-Data, Clinical Trial Data with innovate statistical methods (e.g. machine learning) in collaboration with company stakeholders such as Clinicians, Medical Affairs, Market Access. She has a Ph.D. in Quantitative Genetics from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. She has over 15 years of research experience in data analysis, statistical modelling and machine learning. Before joining Ipsen, she was a research scientist in Applied Genetics at the French National Institute of Agronomy Research, and Biostatistician at Ariana Pharma in charge of statistical analysis & application of data mining algorithms on clinical and biomarker data