Curriculum Vitae

Professional experiences

Current positions

Since 2023. Researcher at the Research Centre for Alpine Ecosystems. Chamonix Mont Blanc.
Since 2021. Research Associate at the French National Museum of Natural History. Collaboration with Dr Christian Kerbiriou & Dr Isabelle Le Viol.
Since 2019. Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Collaboration with Prof Gareth Jones.

Past

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.
- - 1st project: “A review of the first year of the relaunched Sunset/Sunrise survey”.
  - 2nd project: “Improving bat surveys with static detectors to monitor bat populations in the UK”.
  - 3rd project: “Testing and improving survey methods for bat roost detection in buildings”.
2013-2014. Research assistant (10 months). Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and landscape Research (WSL), Switzerland.
- - 1st project: “Bat acoustic sampling in forests”.
  - 2nd project: “Structural complexity in managed and unmanaged mountain forest types: effects on habitat suitability for indicator bird species”.

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 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

Elisabeth Tinsley. Effects of solar farms on nocturnal biodiversity. (University of Bristol, UK).

Master students

2021-22. Quentin Hazard, Tropimundo Erasmus Mundus (France-UK-Portugal). 1 year.

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.