C.V.

Employment

Since 2013    Lecturer in Psychology, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France), CLLE− LTC  UMR 5263 (team Cognition, Communication and Development)

Mar. 2012 − Aug. 2013   Post-doctoral fellow, University of St-Andrews (UK), School of Psychology and Neuroscience, Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, research work with Richard Byrne

Oct. 2011 − Feb. 2012    Research and teaching assistant (ATER) −  Aix-Marseille University, France

2008 – 2011                   Teaching assistant (moniteur)  −  Aix-Marseille University, France

Degrees

                    2008 − 2011  Ph.D. in Psychology (Aix-Marseille University, France),   supervised by Jacques Vauclair 

 Hand shape, function and hand preference of communicative gestures in young children: Insights into the origins of human communication.

2008       Master’s degree in Psychology (Aix-Marseille University, France)

2006       Bachelor’s degree in Biology (University of Tours, France)

Research experience

Sept. 2012  –  Dec. 2012   Field work in Budongo Conservation Field Station, Uganda: observation, video recording and coding of wild chimpanzees’ communicative behaviors (Sonso community) 

2008 – 2013  

Studies on gestural communication in young children (Baby & Child Lab, St Andrews / nurseries in France) and adults

Pointing gestures, symbolic gestures, co-speech gestures: communicative functions, morphological features (e.g., hand shape, body posture), vocalizations, gaze direction

Comparison of hand preferences between communicative and non-communicative activities