Valérie Girardin is an Exceptional Class Associate Professor at the CNRS Laboratory of Mathematics Nicolas Oresme (LMNO), Université de Caen Normandie, France. Agrégée in mathematics, she also holds the French Habilitation, a requirement to supervise PhD students. She teaches analysis, probability and statistics to various types of students, including future secondary school teachers in mathematics. Her research interests include diverse aspects of stochastic processes, from theory to applied statistics, with a focus on entropy.