Pascal Pierre Wild

Born on the First March 1958
Married, 4 children
French nationality

Education Doctoral thesis in statistics at the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine - University of Nancy June 1984

Languages Fluent written and spoken French, English and German

Job history

  • Since January 2009: Independent consultant in statistics, scientific methods and epidemiology
  • January 2004-December 2008: Coordinator of statistics at the French Research and Safety Institute (INRS)
  • June 2003-December 2003: Responsible for epidemiology/statistics at the Scientific and Regulatory Affairs group in a multinational company.
  • September 1999-July 2000: Research Leave at the University of Bremen (Germany)– Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS) and Institute of statistics.
  • September 1989-March 1990: Research Leave at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit Cambridge (UK).
  • November 1984- May 2003: Statistician and epidemiologist at the French Research and Safety Institute (INRS)

Professional Experience

  • My research themes are mostly centered on the methodological aspects of occupational epidemiology. However, I was also the principal investigator in a series of epidemiological studies mostly centered on cancer and respiratory health. Furthermore I have been engaged in the development of statistical methodology (Monte Carlo Markov Chains, innovative research designs) in collaboration with my colleagues from the Germany, UK, France and US. Finally I have acted as a statistical consultant in several areas: toxicology, social sciences, industrial hygiene, chemistry, survival analysis; biochemistry...
  • In the last years I acted repeated as an external expert for some European and French funding agencies and was contacted as an expert by standard setting agencies in France (AFSSET) and US (NTP for its Report on Carcinogens).
  • In my consultancy experience I acquired a good knowledge of many scientific and regulatory issues. For instance, I developed statistical models adapted to the analysis of in vitro toxicology assays and ring assays according to ISO standard 5725.
  • My specifically academic activities include some teaching activities at a master level in the universities of Nancy, Dijon, Paris and Rennes, two PhD supervisions and reviews for leading scientific journals in a broad range of fields (Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Scandinavian Journal for Work, Employment and Health, Annals of Occupational Hygiene, Ergonomics, American Journal of Epidemiology, International Journal of Cancer, Biometrics, Applied Statistics...).
  • I co-organised two post-doctoral level research workshops in statistical methodology for the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in which the leading statistical researchers from Europe and the US presented their research. The first of these workshops (2002) was about the meta-analysis of epidemiological studies which is the basis of evidence based medicine, the second one (2009) was on recent study designs in epidemiology. I organized also 3 training courses for Conference of French Occupational Epidemiologists (ADEREST).
  • I was an invited speaker at both French and international scientific conferences and organised and chaired an invited session at the 2008 International Biometric Conference in Dublin on two-phase methods in epidemiology.
  • I authored or co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
  • My former position as a coordinator of statistics and my present statistical consulting experience in several institutes and companies allow me to efficiently cooperate with fellow scientists with diverse backgrounds (epidemiologists, toxicologists, industrial hygienists, psychologists, chemists, clinicians...) with respect to data analysis, the elaboration of research designs and interpretation of results.