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Hi! I am Rémi, an evolving living thing studying living things evolving—especially when they are bipedal and/or photosynthetic (ideally both).

I am a researcher at IRD, based in Montpellier. I use the framework of population genetics to investigate the history of domestication, examining altogether its plant and human facets. This often translates into questions like: When and under what modes and population models (structured, panmictic) were plants domesticated? When, where and how did they spread? Were human migrations aligned with plant dispersal? How did domestication influence the frequency of beneficial or detrimental mutations in plants and human populations? What are the origins, occurrence biases, fitness effects of these mutations?

My research integrates fieldwork, method development and data analysis, with a pinch of other disciplines: archaeology, anthropology, linguistics and ecology—because eVerYTHinG iS So CoMPleX. I am also interested in various topics related to population genetics, like phylogeography, demographic inference and genomic vulnerability of wild (endangered) species, and the history of psychedelic uses among world populations.

Since 2024, I have been an associate editor for HPGG - Human Population Genetics and Genomics.

• 2010-2014 MEng SupAgro

• 2013-2014 MSc  BEE-DARWIN, University of Montpellier, France

• 2014-2017 PhD  UMR DIADE, IRD, University of Montpellier, France

• 2019-2020 Postdoc  Moorjani Lab, University of Berkeley, USA

• 2020-2022 Postdoc  Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

• 2022-2024 Postdoc UMR CRBE, CNRS, University of Toulouse, France

• 2024-      Researcher UMR DIADE, IRD, University of Montpellier, France