Primatology

I am a cytogeneticist (postgraduate-trained in France) and a bioengineer by training, with experience in cloning, interspecies gene transfer, immortalized cell lines and synthetic biology (United States), with a patent in progress in Protein Design.
More recently, I have developed an interest in cytogenetics in primatology and in skull reconstruction.

For 2026, I’ve been accepted into a primatology program at the Musée de l’Homme, through the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, and I’m currently working on a still-confidential project in this field. In the meantime, you can see my first sketches here.

I love observing primates—capturing the right moment, their expression… It isn’t always easy. I use two methods: either I take lots of photos as references to draw from later, or I draw directly on site.

Sivapithecus indicus
Left: the original skull on display at the Gallery of Comparative Anatomy in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Right: my facial reconstruction. (Intermediate steps not shown: 3D reconstruction of the missing parts of the skull, followed by the addition of successive layers of muscles, cartilage, etc. Article in progress; permission pending.).

'Souvenir' from the Bordeaux Natural History Museum.

Below: Proposed reconstruction (artist’s interpretation) of Megaladapis edwardsi, based on a composite skeleton from the Gallery of Comparative Anatomy, Jardin des Plantes, Paris.

For the marketing class
(certificate with the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History).

Below: Natural History Museum collections storage, Buffon campus (France). Primate skull room.

For the poster class
(certificate with the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History).

Below: Natural History Museum collections storage, Buffon campus (France). Primate skull room.
Research in progress for an educational book...

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