Spillane studied for an engineering diploma at the
École des ponts ParisTech from 2006 to 2010. Over the same period she visited
Stanford University and the
Saclay Nuclear Research Centre, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from
Pierre and Marie Curie University. She completed her doctorate in applied mathematics at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2014. Her dissertation,
Méthodes de décomposition de domaine robustes pour les problèmes symétriques définis positifs, was jointly supervised by Frédéric Nataf and Patrice Hauret. After postdoctoral research at the
University of Chile, she joined CNRS and the École Polytechnique in 2015. In 2017 the
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications gave Spillane their
Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis. == Works ==