title: Dominique Costagliola
text: # Dominique Costagliola
  
  Dominique Costagliola (born May 17, 1954, in Asnières-sur-Seine) is a French epidemiologist and biostatistician, deputy director of the Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health (iPLESP) and is considered a “leading AIDS specialist.”,
  
  ## Biography
  
  She earned a master's degree in physics from Pierre and Marie Curie University before graduating from Télécom Paris and defending a thesis in biological and medical engineering at Paris Diderot University.
  
  ## Career
  
  Costagliola began working at Inserm in 1982 and began her research in HIV in 1986.
  
  ## Honors
  
  * Inserm 2020 Grand Prize
  * Inserm Research Prize in 2013
  * 1995: Knight of the National Order of Merit
  * 2005: Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor
  * 2006: Louis-Daniel Beauperthuy Prize of the Academy of Sciences
  * 2014: Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor
  * 2017: Member of the Academy of Sciences
  