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A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Bernadette Dorizzi obtained the agrégation in mathematics in 1978 and her state thesis in theoretical physics at the University of Orsay (Paris XI-France) in 1983, on the study of the integrability of dynamic systems. In the field of pattern recognition and machine learning, she is a specialist in biometrics and has coordinated the European network of excellence BioSecure (Biometrics for Secure Authentication). Her research has been published in more than 230 international journals and she has supervised more than 20 PhDs. Bernadette Dorizzi was Director of the Electronics and Physics Department and then Director of Research and Doctoral Training at Télécom Sud.