Marc Lavarde is a Lecturer in Statistics at the School of Industrial Biology (EBI) in Paris, France. He holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from the University of Paris-Saclay, France. His doctoral work focused on the selection of Gaussian and sub-Gaussian piecewise linear models. His current research focuses on experimental design and statistical modeling applied to cosmetic and pharmaceutical formulation and sensory analysis. In 2022, he became Head of the EBI Sensory Analysis Laboratory.