title: Irène Gijbels
text: # Irène Gijbels
  
  Irène Gijbels is a mathematical statistician at KU Leuven in Belgium, and an expert on nonparametric statistics. She has also collaborated with TopSportLab, a KU Leuven spin-off, on software for risk assessment of sports injuries.
  
  ## Education and career
  
  Gijbels earned her Ph.D. in 1990 from Limburgs Universitair Centrum. Her dissertation, supervised by Noël Veraverbeke, was Asymptotic Representations under Random Censoring.
  
  She joined KU Leuven after postdoctoral research as a Fulbright scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.
  
  ## Book
  
  With Jianqing Fan, Gijbels is the author of Local Polynomial Modelling and Its Applications (CRC Press, 1996).
  
  ## Recognition
  
  Gijbels is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, and a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
  
  