Professional experiences
Current positions
Since 2024. Associate Professor at the University of Marie and Louis Pasteur (Chrono-Environnement lab).
Past
2023-2024. Researcher at the Research Centre for Alpine Ecosystems. Chamonix Mont Blanc.
2021-2023. Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, UK. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust. From bats to bees: effects of artificial electromagnetic fields on biodiversity. Collaboration with Prof Kirsty Park.
2020-2021. Postdoctoral Fellow (9 months). French National Museum of Natural History. Funded by SAD Bretagne. Modelling bat activity at the regional scale to predict areas of potential conflict with wind energy development.
2019-2020. Postdoctoral Fellow (15 months). French National Institute for Agricultural Research, France & Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. EU funded project CERES: connectivity of forest and riparian ecosystems of the SUDOE.
2016-2017. Science intern: data analyst (4 months). Bat Conservation Trust (BCT), UK.
2013-2014. Research assistant (10 months). Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and landscape Research (WSL), Switzerland.
Academic qualifications
2014-2018. PhD in Conservation Biology. University of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences, UK.
Title: “Contributions of agri-environment schemes to the conservation of bats and arthropods in European farmland habitats”. Supervisor: Prof Gareth Jones.
2011-2013. MSc in Applied Ecology. University of Montpellier II, France. Graduated with the highest honours.
1st Master thesis (5 months): “Influence of environmental variables on bat activity in boreal ecosystems”. Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife of Québec (MRNF), Canada. Supervisor: Dr Anouk Simard.
2nd Master thesis (7 months): “Optimising the acoustic sampling for forest bat inventories”. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and landscape Research (WSL), Switzerland. Supervisors: Dr Martin Obrist and Dr Kurt Bollmann.
2008-2011. BSc in Biology and Ecology University of Metz & Lycée Edgar Faure, France. Graduated with honours.
Awards
2018. Nominated for the best PhD thesis. Faculty of Life Sciences, Bristol.
2017. Vincent Weir Scientific Award. Awarded by the Bat Conservation Trust for significant contribution to research on the conservation biology of bats.
2017. Bristol Plus Award. Awarded by the University of Bristol for accomplishing significant extracurricular activities throughout the PhD.
2015. Change Maker Award. Awarded by the University of Bristol for contributing >30 hours of work towards sustainability in Bristol and beyond.
Peer review activities
Since 2024. Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Ecology.
Since 2018. Review editor for Journal of Bat Research and Conservation.
Occasional reviewer for: Journal of Applied Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Remote Sensing of Environment, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Landscape Ecology, Forest Ecology and Management, Basic and Applied Ecology, Ecology and Evolution, Global Ecology and Conservation, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, The Science of Nature, Wildlife Research, Journal of Mammalogy, Austral Ecology, and Acta Chiropterologica.
Teaching experiences
2019-2020. ENSAT, AgroParisTech, MNHN. 10 hours, Master level.
2015-2018. University of Bristol. 208 hours, from Undergraduate L1 to Master level. Quantitative methods, behavioural biology, evolutionary biology, ecology, field courses in ecology, conservation biology.
Student supervision
PhD students
Graduated in 2023. Elisabeth Tinsley. Effects of solar farms on nocturnal biodiversity. (University of Bristol, UK).
Visiting PhD students
2025. Alex Bellé. 3 months. Bat monitoring at high altitude. University of Torino (Italy).
2024. Chiara Dangeli. 3 months. Mapping alpine ecosystems with remote sensing techniques. Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Italy).
Master students
2025-26. Léa Bourget. Sorbonne University (France). 6 months. Characterisation of bumblebee (Bombus spp.) flight buzz acoustics and application of passive acoustic monitoring to bilberry phenology.
2025-26. Marion Tiberghien. University of Saint-Etienne. 6 months. Effect of road traffic on the activity and echolocation calls of the Common Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus).
2025-26. Kilian Paquet. University of Rennes (France) 6 months.
2024-25. Marion Tiberghien. University of Strasbourg (France) 6 months. Characterization of the cumulative effects of road, wind, and photovoltaic infrastructures on soundscapes and bird species richness as indicators of space use.
2024-25. You-lann Chevalier. University of Lorraine (France). . 6 months. Multi-scale influence of forest composition on moth communities in the Cévennes National Park.
2024-25. Anaïs Lhermite. Marie and Louis Pasteur University (France). 2 months. Assessing the abiotic factors influencing bat activity in high altitude habitats: the study case of Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774).
2021-22. Quentin Hazard, Tropimundo Erasmus Mundus (France-UK-Portugal). 1 year. Ecological impact of habitat loss and fragmentation on an insectivorous bat community in a Malaysian hydroelectric reservoir.
2017-18. Fialas P.C., University of Göttingen (Germany). 1 year. Transition to organic farming negatively impacts bats and leads to a time-lag in their responses to farm management.
2016. Cadieu M., University of La Rochelle (France). 6 months. Effects of agri-environment schemes on hedgerow connectivity and complexity in South-West of England.
Undergraduates
2023-2024. Blake Ross. University of Stirling (UK). 6 months.
2017. Mythen C. University of Bristol (UK). 2 months.
2017. McKenna C. University of Bristol (UK). 2 months.
2017. Beadle O. University of Bristol (UK). 2 months.
2017. Rowlands O. University of Bristol (UK). 2 months.
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