Degrees:
2014: HDR, Habilitation to supervise doctoral theses
2008: PhD in Ethology. Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France;
free University of Brussels, Belgium.
2005: Master degree. University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg. With honours
2003: Bachelor of Organisms’ Biology. University 14USTL, Lille. With honours
Affiliations:
Since2024: Full Professor, University of Strasbourg
Since 2021: Associate Researcher, Lille Catholic University
2011-2024: Associate Professor, University of Strasbourg (Outstanding since 2021)
January-March 2022: Invited Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study
July-August 2016: Invited Professor, Sun-Yat Sen University, China (Changjiang Scholar Program award)
2008-2012: research associate, Unit of Social Ecology, free university of Brussels
2010-2011: research fellow, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University
2009- 2010 : research associate, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
2007-2008: Lecturer in Ethology, Strasbourg University
Administrative Office:
Since 2023: Head of the National Research Group “Resodiv”
Since 2022: Representative for PCI Network Sci (https://networksci.peercommunityin.org/)
Since 2022: Coordinator of the International Research Project/International associated laboratory “Animal behavioural complexity” with the CNRS and Kyoto University
Since 2021: Member of the scientific committee of ReworldMedia
Since 2017: Fyssen Foundation Reading Committee member
Since 2014: Member of the scientific committee of the Foundation Animal Right, Ethics and Sciences (LFDA)
2014-2024: Member of the French National Committee for Animal Experimentation (arrêté du 24-8-2014 - NOR > MENR1401130A)
2022-2024: Member of the scientific council of the French Center for the 3R
2016-2024: Expert for the evaluation exercise H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, European Commission
2011-2018: Head of the network SNAAS (Social Network Analysis in Animal Societies) of the French National Society of Complex Systems (RNSC)
2011-2016: Member of the Council of Supervision of PhD candidates at the department of Ecology, Physiology and Ethology, IPHC, Strasbourg, France
2012-2015: Member of the Council of the Complex System Society
2011-2014: Member of the council of the French Society for the study of Animal Behaviour, in charge of rehabilitation of laboratory’s animals
2011-2012: Member of the regional ethics committee regarding animal experimentation, Strasbourg
2010-2012: Administrator and member of the scientific council for the Graal, Association of reflection and action for animals.
2005-2008: Member of the Scientific council and of the pedagogic council of the Doctoral School of The Sciences of Life and Health of Strasbourg
Honors - Prizes:
Recognition by the Notable People Project for research on collective decision-making and social networks across human and other animal societies ‘2026).
Borneo Orangutan Survival “Stronger together” trophy (2025)
2025 Research.com Best scientist
Selected for the Lumexplore Prize 2025 by the French Society of Explorers
Selected for the François Sommer Prize 2025
2024 Top Scholar Awardee (Top 0.5% Worldwide – Social Networks), ScholarGPS Global Ranking
2024 Research.com Best scientist
Member of the “Institut Universitaire de France” (2024-2029)
Best communication prize for the 2023 Aramos Congress (French Association for Applied Research in Healthcare Organization Management)
2023 Research.com Best scientist
Nominated member of the Scientific Research Honor Society Sigma Xi
World's top 2% of Scientists in the list created by Stanford University (2022)
2022 Research.com Best scientist
Adolphe Wetrems 2019 award from the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium
Fellow of the “Institut Universitaire de France” (2019-2024)
Primates Social Impact Award 2017
Changjiang Scholar Program award (2016, visiting professor at Sun-Yat Sen University, China)
Excellence Award from the French Minister of Higher Education and Research (PEDR, 2014)
Young scientist award from the French Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour (SFECA 2013)
3 papers among the top 5 cited papers in International Journal of Primatology (2012)
Fellow of the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS 2012)
Marie Curie Fellow (Belgium Science Policy, CFP7 people-cofund-2008)
JSPS alumni (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2010)
Fulbright alumni (2009)
Prize of the Society of Biology of Strasbourg for the best thesis (2009)
Prize « Le Monde de la Recherche universitaire » for the best thesis (2009)
Member of the European Doctoral College of Strasbourg (2006-2010)
Grants:
CNRS MITI Interdisciplinary Mission – Optimal Shapes (30k€, 2026-2027)
Idex (Excellence Initiative) Exploratory Research, Université of Strasbourg (26k€, 2024-2026)
International Credit Mobility, National Erasmus+ Agency (University of Strasbourg, University of Lomé Togo, 121k€, 2024-2027)
Research National Program in Artificial Intelligence (PNRIA) AAP2023 CNRS (42k€)
Grant of the French Homeland Ministry, Direction of road security (2023-2025, 218 k€)
Research National Program in Artificial Intelligence (PNRIA) AAP2022 CNRS (42k€)
IdEx Sciences en société et en territoire (10k€, 2022)
IRP International Research project INEE-CNRS international (2022-2027, 50k€)
Nestlé Purina PetCare Global Ressources Sponsorship (29.3k$)
Idex AAP Exploratory Research, Université de Strasbourg (2021-2023 ; 10k€)
Interdisciplinary project CNRS MITI 2020 (PI : C. Sueur, 130k-€)
Interdisciplinary project CNRS INSHS 80|Prime 2020 (PI : E. Garine, 150k€)
INNOVEHPAD, Projet Résilience Grand Est (2020, PI : Christophe Humbert, 258k€)
Fellow of the “Institut Universitaire de France” (2019-2024, 75k€)
Grant of the French Homeland Ministry, Direction of road security (2019-2023, 196 k€)
CNRS Interdisciplinary mission grant “Cognitive and Social Sciences for Collective Behaviours” (2018, 24k€)
PICS CNRS Japan INDINET (International Project for Scientific Collaboration, 2017-2019, 23k€)
CNRS Interdisciplinary mission grant “Cognitive and Social Sciences for Collective Behaviours” (2017-2019,61k€)
Grant from the ALCA Region to hire a PhD student (50k€, 2016)
Misha Open call (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme – Alsace, 10k€, 2016)
CNRS Interdisciplinary mission grant “Cognitive and Social Sciences for Collective Behaviours” (2016, 14k€)
Grant for the RNSC, French National network on Complex Systems (2015)
Idex Initiative d’Excellence Sciences and Societies “Japan: monkeys and human beings” (2015, PI: Cédric Sueur, 19k€)
French national Research Agency Grant, Collaborative Research HANC (2015-2018, PI : C. Sueur, 412k€)
Internship and mobility grant from the Research group “Statistical Ecology” (2015)
Mobility funds Egide PHC Tournesol (2015)
Idex Initiative d’Excellence MOOC (massive open online course) « Advanced Introduction to Complex Systems » (PI: Pierre Collet, 2014, 16k€)
Grants for the RNSC, French National network on Complex Systems (2014)
“Top Global University Project “ Mobility funds Strasbourg-Kyoto exchange (2014)
Research grant CAPES (Brazil) for PhD student (Romano V., 2013)
Research grant FRQS (Fonds de Recherche Santé Québec) for PhD student (Naud A., 2013)
Research grant from the Fyssen Foundation (2013)
Grants for the RNSC, French National network on Complex Systems (2013)
French national Research Agency Grant ‘ANR Blanc’ DROSONET (2012-2016, PI : F. Méry)
Exchange funds Egide PHC TOURNESOL FR (2012)
Postdoctoral fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, 2010-2011)
Postdoctoral study grant of the Fyssen Foundation (2009-2010)
Fulbright grant from Franco-American commission (2009)
Research bursary for Excellence of Wallonia-Brussels International (2009)
Conference grant of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB, 2008)
Conference grant of the French Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour (2008)
Scholarship of the European Doctoral College of Strasbourg (2008)
Lavoisier scholarship of Excellence of the French Ministry of foreign affairs (2007)
Scholarship of the SFECA, French Society for the study of Animal Behaviour (2007)
Scholarship of the European Doctoral College of Strasbourg (2007)
Scholarship of Mobility of the French Ministry of Education and Research (2006)
Conference organization:
Organiser of the colloquium "The protection of orangutans in Indonesia”, Université de Strasbourg, 2025 February 26
Co-organizer with Marie Pelé, Jessica Mobard, and David Doat of the symposium "Crossings and Resonances of the Living," May 14-15, 2024, Université Catholique de Lille.
Co-organiser with Angelo Giavatto of the colloquium “Human language, animal language”, 2022 May 24, Paris
Co-editor of the special issue “Perceptions of Human-Animal Relationships and their Impacts on Animal Ethics, Law and Research.” in Frontier in Psychology, December 2020
Co-editor of the Joint Special Feature “Animal Social networks” in Journal of Animal Ecology and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Co-editor of the special issue “ Social networks analysis in primates, a multilevel perspective” in Primates, May 2019
Program committee member for NetSci2018
Co-organiser of the Symposium "Social Network Analysis in life science" at the XXXVIII Sunbelt Conference from June 26 to July 1, 2018
Editor of the book “Les réseaux sociaux dans le règne animal” (Social networks in animal kingdom), 2015, Editions Matériologiques, Paris, France
Organiser of the second workshop SNAAS (Social Network Analysis in Animal Societies), April the 24th, 2015, SFECA Congress, Strasbourg, France
Co-organiser of the first meeting for lab animal rehoming, June 20, 2014, Strasbourg, France
Organiser of the workshop SNAAS (Social Network Analysis in Animal Societies), July 3-4, 2013, Strasbourg, France
Organiser (with Valérie Dufour). "Behaving with a social network in mind". Symposia, European Congress of Behavioral Biology 2012. July 20th-22nd, Essen, Germany.
Organiser (with Andrew J King). "Where next? Group coordination and decision-making in primates". Dual symposia, The 23rd Congress of the International Primatological Society. 12-18 September 2010.
Editor of a special issue on social networks in primates. Published in American Journal of Primatology, vol 73 issue 8, August 2011.
Editor of a special issue on group coordination and decision-making in primates. Published in International Journal of Primatology, Vol 32 issue 6, December 2011
Scientific Evaluation Associate at the European Science Foundation (Life/Biomedical Sciences)
Scientific Evaluation Associate at the Franco-American commission Fulbright
Editorial Board member for Scientific Reports
Review editor for Frontiers in Psychology
2012-2015: Academic editor for PLoS One
External referee for the French Ministry of Research, the Belgium National funds for Scientific Research, the Excellence Initiative from Toulouse University, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Leakey foundation and several scientific journals (Current Biology, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Plos Computational Biology, Plos One, Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, American Journal of Primatology, International Journal of Primatology, etc.)