Dr Félix Foutel-Rodier

Glasstone Research Fellow

About Me

I am currently a Glasstone Fellow at the department of statistics. I was mainly educated in France and I have a mixed academic background in life science and mathematics. I first graduated from the École Normale Supérieure with a major in life science, after which I obtained a PhD in probability theory from Sorbonne Université. My advisors were Amaury Lambert and Emmanuel Schertzer, and I was based at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology at the Collège de France. Before joining the department, I also did a one-year postdoc at the UQÀM in Montréal on epidemic modeling.

Research Interests

My research lies at the interface of probability theory and population biology. I study probabilistic objects arising from biologically motivated questions

I am both interested in the mathematical structure of these objects and in their application to understanding the underlying biological phenomena. Areas of interest:

  • branching processes
  • exchangeable coalescents
  • random trees / random metric spaces
  • population genetic aspects of recombination
  • genetics of range expansion
  • age-structured models in epidemiology

Publications

Foutel-Rodier, F., Charpentier, A. and Guérin, H. (2023) “Optimal Vaccination Policy to Prevent Endemicity: A Stochastic Model.”
Foutel-Rodier, F. and Schertzer, E. (2023) “Convergence of genealogies through spinal decomposition with an application to population genetics”, PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS, 187(3-4), pp. 697–751.
Duchamps, J.-J., Foutel-Rodier, F. and Schertzer, E. (2023) “General epidemiological models: law of large numbers and contact tracing”, Electronic Journal of Probability, 28(none).
Foutel-Rodier, F., Blanquart, F., Courau, P., Czuppon, P., Duchamps, J.-J., Gamblin, J., Kerdoncuff, É, Kulathinal, R., Régnier, L., Vuduc, L., Lambert, A. and Schertzer, E. (2022) “From individual-based epidemic models to McKendrick-von Foerster PDEs: a guide to modeling and inferring COVID-19 dynamics.”, Journal of mathematical biology, 85(4), p. 43.
Boenkost, F., Foutel-Rodier, F. and Schertzer, E. (2022) “The genealogy of nearly critical branching processes in varying environment.”
Foutel-Rodier, F., Lambert, A. and Schertzer, E. (2021) “Exchangeable coalescents, ultrametric spaces, nested interval-partitions: A unifying approach”, The Annals of Applied Probability, 31(5).
Foutel-Rodier, F. and Etheridge, A. (2020) “The spatial Muller’s ratchet: Surfing of deleterious mutations during range expansion.”, Theoretical population biology, 135, pp. 19–31.
Etheridge, A. and Foutel-Rodier, F. (2020) “The spatial Muller’s ratchet: surfing of deleterious mutations during range expansion”, Theoretical Population Biology, 135, pp. 19–31.
Foutel-Rodier, F., Blanquart, F., Courau, P., Czuppon, P., Duchamps, J.-J., Gamblin, J., Kerdoncuff, É, Kulathinal, R., Régnier, L., Vuduc, L., Lambert, A. and Schertzer, E. (2020) “From individual-based epidemic models to McKendrick-von Foerster PDEs: A guide to modeling and inferring COVID-19 dynamics.”
Foutel-Rodier, F., Lambert, A. and Schertzer, E. (2020) “Kingman’s coalescent with erosion”, ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY, 25.

Contact Details

Email: felix.foutel-rodier@stats.ox.ac.uk

Office: 3.05

Research Groups

Probability