My passion for natural history, paleontology and travel gave me the luck to collaborate on several paleontological and biological expeditions. These collaborations have reinforced my enthusiasm in being involved in fieldwork and allowed me to visit a great diversity of mammals, birds, orchids and dragonflies in several countries. In collaboration with Knud Jønsson and the LIPI (Indonesia, Bogor), I just organized two missions in Indonesia aiming to collect bird and mammal specimens and tissus as long as ecological and functional anatomy data.Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans), melanic form, Buru, Indonesia.
OBI and BURU ISLANDS, November2013-March 2014, organisator and member of the mammalogical and ornithological expedition in Obi and Buru (Indonesia). Collaboration program with Mohammed Irrham, Tri Haryoko et Yuli Fitriana (Department of Zoology of the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, LIPI, INDONESIA), Andrew Reeve and Jonathan Kennedy (CMEC, ZMUC).
GREENLAND, July-August 2012, member of the little auk expedition in Kap Hoegh. Collaboration program with Jérome Fort and Julien Nezan.
Mossy forest around 2000 m, Gunung Binaya, Pulau Seram, Indonesia.
SERAM, February-March 2012, member of the ornithological expedition in Seram (Indonesia). Collaboration program with Mohammed Irrham, Tri Haryoko et Yuli Fitriana (Department of Zoology of the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, LIPI, INDONESIA), Knud Jønsson (CMEC), Michael Poulsen and Andy Reeves (ZMUC).
BURU, January-February 2011, member of the ornithological expedition in Buru (Indonesia). Collaboration program with Mohammed Irrham, Tri Haryoko et Yuli Fitriana (Department of Zoology of the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, LIPI, INDONESIA) and Knud Jønsson (CMEC), Michael Poulsen.Mossy forest around 1500 m, Kapalat Mada, Pulau Buru, Indonesia.
THAILAND, July 2007, Albinos orchid sampling (Aphyllorchis montana, North of Thailand). Collaboration program with Mélanie Roy (CEFE, UPS) and Santi Watthana (Queen Sirikit botanical garden, Chiang Mai, Thailand).Doi Chang Dao, North Thailand.
ALGERIA, January 2006, member of the paleontological expedition in the Gour Lazib (Southwest Sahara). Collaboration program with Dr. Rodolphe Tabuce and Dr. Laurent Marivaux (ISEM), Dr. Mustapha Bensalah & Mohammed Adaci (Department of Geology of the University of Tlemcen), Prof. M’Hammed Mahboubi(University of Oran), Dr Lionel Hautier (ISEM) and Dr. Fateh Mebrouk( University of Jijel).
Glib Zegdou, Sahara, Algeria.
FRANCE, July 2005, Deep Sea Shark sampling in Boulogne sur mer (North of France). Collaboration program with Francois Catzeflis (ISEM).