Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch

Born in Brussels, Belgium, Françoise moved to London, UK for college and graduate school attaining a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a master’s and PhD in Statistical Science. She moved to California for her postdoctoral work attending Stanford and Berkeley. She moved to Chapel Hill North Carolina as a tenure-track assistant professor. After being promoted to associate professor (with tenure), she relocated to the Washington DC area, first as associate professor at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, then as director of the Biostatistics Core of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and then as chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Georgetown University. Before retiring from academia, she was briefly full professor at the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences.

She decided to change career path and pursue her passion for viticulture turning her attention full time to the vineyard that she had started with her husband, Julian, several years before. This vineyard has expanded over the past ten years from an acre to nearly twenty acres and now includes a tasting room that overlooks the magnificent Hebron Valley in Madison Virginia. In addition to managing the farm winery, she volunteers at local high schools teaching viticulture to students in the agriculture curriculum. She has served on Madison County’s Planning Commission since 2019.