CV
I am currently a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) researcher director at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM).
Education
2019 – Present
University of Montpellier
HDR in Computer Science
2006 – 2009
University of Montpellier 2
Ph-D in Computer Science
2004 – 2006
University of Rome 2
Master in Mathematical Engineering
2001 – 2004
University of Rome 2
Bachelor in Mathematical Engineering
1996 – 2001
Liceo Scientico “Edoardo Amaldi”, Rome
Italian equivalent of A-levels
Experience
2009 – 2011
University of Tübingen
Postdoctoral fellow at the Zentrum fur Bioinformatik Tubingen (ZBIT) under the supervision of Daniel H. Huson. Teaching load was approximately 4h/week.
2006 – 2009
Université of Montpellier 2
Phd student in Computer Science at the Laboratories d’Informatique Robotique Microlectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM) under the supervision of Olivier Gascuel, Vincent Berry and Vincent Ranwez. Teaching load was approximately 64h/year.
Supervision
In the past, I have supervised/co-supervised:
six master students (Benjamin Albrecht, Franziska Zickmann, Wojciech Paprotny, Manuel Labous, Thomas Markus Huber, Matthieu Angles)
eight post-doctoral fellows (Yao-ban Chan, Thu-Hien To, Mark Jones, Paul Simion, Charles-Elie Rabier, Francois Bienvenu, Benjamin Linard and Marnus Stoltz))
one engineer (Edwin Jacox)
four bachelor students (Julien Braine, Ilyas Lebleu, Shayesteh Arasti, Mohadeseh and Sayahian Dehkordi )
two visiting PhD candidates (Manuel Lafond (Universite de Montreal) and Joan Carles Pons Mayol (Universitat de les Illes Balears), each for a period of three months
one PhD candidate (Manuel Binet)
I currently supervise:
two PhD candidates (Qiuyi Li, Guillaume Thomas)
one post-doctoral fellow (Josselin Cornuault)
Collective responsibilities
I am a member of the scientific board of the GDR BIM and the GDR AIEM.
I was member of the National Committee for Scientific Research (CoNRS) for Section 6 (Computer and Information Sciences: Foundations of Computer Science, Computation, Algorithms, Data and Knowledge Representation, Information Processing) from 2016 until 2020.
I was a member of the Academic Council of the University Montpellier 2 until end of 2014 and a member of the Laboratory Council of the ISE-M until may 2015.
Organisation Committes
International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2018
Statistical Methods for Post Genomic Data (SMPGD) 2018.
Program Committees
three Lorentz Center workshops on phylogenetic networks reconstruction
European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in 2012 et 2014
Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology (MCEB) conference from 2013 onward
RECOMB Comparative Genomics (RECOMB-CG) 2019
Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) 2019
SOFtware SEMinar (SOFSEM) 2020
JOBIM 2020
JOBIM 2021, SEA 2021
ISMB 2022 (co-Area chair), RECOMB-CG 2022
Funding history
My work was partially funded by the French Agency Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) through Grants Phyl-ARIANE, Ancestrome, TED (ANR-13-BSV2-0011), BirdIslandGenomic (ANR-14-CE02-0002), Agropolis Foundation Flagship project GenomeHarvest and via the Institut de Biologie Computationnelle (IBC).
I have also obtained several small grants: two CNRS grants (a PEPS BMI in 2013 and a PICS in 2014), a Jeunes Chercheurs project at IBC in 2014 and two PHC FASIC travel grants in 2019. Finally, I have been awarded with a LabEx NUMEV grant for one year post-doctoral position, a Labex Agro-Cemeb-Numev grant for a two-years post-doctoral position, and a MUSE grant for a one year post-doctoral position.
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