Curriculum Vitae
2016 - 2019
PhD, Ecophysiology Laboratory – CEBC – CNRS UMR 7372, La Rochelle University. Supervisor: Dr Frédéric Angelier; Impact of developmental conditions on birds’ phenotype: from hatching to adult stage (Black-browed Albatross, Snow Petrel and House Sparrow). Oral presentation: 18/09/2019
2016
MSc. in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution - Option in conservation biology, Paris Saclay University – France.
Magistère de Biologie et Biotechnologie, Paris Saclay University in partnership with École Normale Supérieure in Cachan – France.
2014
Bachelor-degree in Biology, Paris Saclay University – France
Work certificates
Training in the Use of Wild Animals for Scientific Purposes ‘ExpeFS’, specialized in birds (MNHN/CEBC/CNRS) - France.
PIL Training Certificate - Scotland.
Distance education of veterinarian health’s auxiliary (IFSA) – Option wild animals.
Management of major research projects
2023 - Ongoing
Post-doctoral research associate, Collaborators: Damien Chevallier, Dr Mathieu Giraudeau, Dr Jérôme Fort, Prof Paco Bustamante, Dr Guillaume Le Loc'h; Research project: Effects of pollutants on Fibropapillomatosis in Green turtles
2022
Post-doctoral research associate, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine - University of Glasgow - Scotland, Collaborators: Pr Pat Monaghan, Pr Neil Metcalfe, Pr Colin Selman, Dr Winnie Boner, Dr Edward Ivimey-Cook and Cara Cochrane; Research project: Intergenerational transfer of ageing, the Lansing Effect.
2021/2022
Post-doctoral research associate, University of Montpellier, CEFE, CNRS UMR 5175.
Collaborators: Dr Aurélien Besnard, Dr Olivier Duriez & Dr Alexandre Corbeau; Research project: MAPE Project - Work Package 4 Part 1, Elaboration of a standardized and robust protocol for evaluating the performances of detection-reaction systems installed in onshore windfarms to reduce avian fatalities.
2019/2020
Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Lille 1, Ecology, Evolution and Paleontology Unit – CNRS UMR 8198.
Collaborators: Dr Nina Hautekeete & Dr Yves Piquot; Research project: Study of the conflict between Human and European Beaver in a French department throughout the analyze of semi-opening interviews.
2016
Master student, Evolutionary Ethology Laboratory – CNRS UMR 7178.
Supervisor: Dr Odile Petit; Research project: Impact of light pollution on foraging behavior in European Hamsters.
2015
Master student, Evolutionary Ecology Laboratory – CNRS UMR 7625.
Supervisors: Dr Emmanuelle Baudry & Dr Julien Gasparini; Research project: Is there a link between plumage coloration and escape behavior in urban Pigeons?
Management of minor research projects
2014/2015
Bachelor student, Adaptive Mechanisms and Evolution Laboratory - Natural History Museum/CNRS UMR 7179.
Supervisor: Dr Fabien Pifferi; Research project: Impact of a short-term caloric restriction on cognitive performance and locomotion of adult Microcebes.
2014
Bachelor student, Neurobiology of Learning, Memory and Communication Laboratory – CNRS UMR 8195.
Supervisor: Dr Hélène Courvoisier; Research project: Vocal group identity studied in adult blackcaps.
2013
Bachelor student, Evolutionary Ecology Laboratory – CNRS UMR 7625.
Supervisor: Dr Clotilde Biard; Research project: Impacts of urbanization on blue tits’ phenotype and breeding performances.
Career break due to the pandemic
2020/2021
Veterinary assistant – Clinique de la Roche, Poitiers (France)
Involvement in surgery/consultation assistance, animals’ care, client reception, nutritional and anti-parasitic advices, medication preparation.
Field experience
Ecophysiology and Biologging in a colony of Snow Petrels in Terre Adélie, Antarctica; Ecophysiology, Ecotoxicology and Behavior in a captive population of House Sparrows at the CEBC/CNRS; Behavior and Population reinforcement by reintroductions in rodents; Cognition and Ecophysiology in Microcebes; Bioacoustic analyses and Behavior in a wild population of Blackcaps.
Socioecology
Analyzing people discourse according to personal experience, thanks to semi-opening interviews, regarding the legitimacy of reintroduction/presence and utility of European Beaver in the Moselle department (France).
Ecophysiology measurements
Morphometric measurements: beak, tarsus and wing length in birds; Blood samples: collected from brachial vein (birds) and sublingually (rodents); Telomere and corticosterone measurement: PCR, Southern blot and radioimmunoassay; Energy expenditure: Resting, basal and thermoregulatory metabolism in birds and Microcebes.
Behavioral ecology
Temperament: neophobia, neophilia, exploration behavior, discriminatory test, escape and tonic immobility in birds and rodents; Cognition: spatial memory, cognitive discrimination, foraging problem-solving tasks in birds and Microcebes; Behavior: Parental investment during incubation and rearing periods, playback experiments in birds.
Technical
Computer programming: R, LateX, Scilab, Linux, Python, (Java – in progress); Acoustic analysis: Avisoft; Spatial analysis: QGIS, Graphab; Image analysis: ImageJ, GIMP.
Languages
French: Mother tongue; English: understand, read, write, speak; Spanish: understand.
Teaching
Tutorials and Practical works (176 hours), to Bachelor-degree students (from 1st to 3rd year of BSc, French-speaking and English-speaking groups). University of Lille 1.
Supervision of 9 university students during 2-month internships. Teaching team work, scientific methods. Advising on approaches for statistical analysis and report writing.
Educational guidance of 2 4-student groups (Msc. 1st year, 1 French-speaking and 1 English-speaking group) in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution at Poitiers University.
Supporting teachers in the biodiversity education system ECORCE 2018.
