project coordination & team management

• identifying research funding opportunities and preparing applications / proposals for research funding;

• identifying cross-institutional networks of partnerships;

• setting project goals and objectives, designing protocoles;

• planning, organising and prioritizing work duties and research activities;

• recruiting and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students, field and lab technicians, postdoctorants;

• managing human, material and financial resources;

• organising, managing and supporting the day to day activities;

• preparing budgets;

• purchasing materials;

• liaising with funding agencies, collaborators and partners;

• cooperating with colleagues and partners to ensure goals and targets are met;

• organisating and animating meeting, workshops;

• preparing financial and technical reports;

• providing expertise to State services, national public institutions,regional and local authorities;

• managing data base, analysing data, publishing and communicating results.

PEER-Reviewing

Journal of Applied Ecology

Journal of Animal Ecology 

Oikos

Animal Behaviour

Molecular Ecology

Ecography

Behavioral Ecology

Evolutionary Ecology

Ethology

PLoS ONE

Genetica

European Journal of Wildlife Research

Journal of Mammalogy

Journal of Zoology

Australian Journal of Zoology

Mammalian Biology

Mammalia

Livestock Science

Current Zoology

Oryx

Referee for research grants

• The Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation

• Swedish Environmental Protection Agency / Wildlife management fund (Viltvårdsfonden)

• Member of advising board for doctoral studies from Vilnius University (2016).

Member of PhD committee & JURIES

• Jury member for the selection of a long-term environmental technician specialized in Mountain ecosystems working at the French Biodiversity Office (OFB) (April 2021).

• Examinator for the jury of a PhD defence by Juliette SEIGLE FERRAND (LECA-CNRS, 2018-2020). Rôles de la structure du paysage et du degré de socialité sur la sélection d'habitat et la mobilité animale : une approche comparative chez les grands herbivores.

• Member of the PhD committee for the PhD of Maëlis KERVELLEC. (CEFE-CNRS, 2021-2024). University of Montpellier (Supervisor : Olivier GIMENEZ, CEFE-CNRS). Mesurer la connectivité des populations de grands carnivores (Ours brun et Lynx boréal) : Apport du suivi non-invasif, de l’intégration de données et de la modélisation statistique. 

• Member of the PhD committee for the PhD of Chloé MONESTIER. 2012-2016. University of Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III (supervisors : M. Hewison, CEFS-INRA and J.-M. Gaillard, LBBE-CNRS). Individual heterogeneity in the demographic performance and personality in roe deer.

• Member of the PhD committee for the PhD of Dede Aulia RAHMAN. 2012-2015. University of Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III (supervisors : S. Aulagnier, M. Hewison and G. Gonzalez, CEFS-INRA). Estimation of population density using capture-recapture analysis of camera trapping data and behavior study of a threatened and poorly known deer: the Bawean deer.

ManagEMENT OF working groups 

• Managing an European research network on Pyrenean brown bear (ROPE, since 2022).

• Managing a national working group on the role of large carnivores in ecosystems (OFB-CNRS-INRAE, since 2020).

• Managing an European network on brown bear monitoring in the Pyrenees (Groupe de Suivi Transfrontalier de l'Ours dans les Pyrénées GSTOP) (since 2022).

• Managing a mailing list and organising a monthly meeting at LBBE-CNRS on roe deer ecology (2013-2015).

• Managing a mailing list and organising a monthly meeting at LBBE-CNRS on the applications of molecular tools in behavioural ecology and population genetics (2014-2015).·       

MEMBERSHIP OF scientific networks

• Responsible for the Animal Welfare Structure (SBEAC) and Apafis for the College Carnivores within the framework of the OFB's approval of establishments that use animals from for scientific purposes (since 2022).

• Member of the Steering Committee of the Zone Atelier PYGAR (since 2022).

• Expert member of the CSRPN Occitanie (Scientific Regional Council for Natural Heritage).

• IUCN SSC Bear Specialist Group (BSG) and European Brown Bear Expert Team.

• International Association for Bear Research and Management. 

• EUropean ROe DEER Information System (EURODEER).

• Réseau Ours Brun (ROB).

• Réseau de Recherche sur l’Ours brun des Pyrénées (ROPE) .

• Groupe de Suivi Transfrontalier de l'Ours dans les Pyrénées (GSTOP).

• British Ecological Society (BES).