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Education and related research experiences

• 2020 - 2023

Ph.D. in Ecophysiology
Stress, Health and Senescence in a long-lived mammal, the roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)
  Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biologie (LBBBE UMR5558) - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
   Supervised by Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont and Pauline Vuarin

During my Ph.D, I have explored the relationships between chronic stress, as measured by glucocorticoid metabolites, and the senescence of health- and fitness-related traits in two populations of roe deer, followed longitudinally by capture-mark-recapture programs.

Briefly, I described immunosenescence ans haematological senescence in those populations, and I investigated whether juvenile and adult glucocorticoid levels modulated patterns of senescence and affected body mass, immunity and haematological parameters value. Learn more about my Ph.D. work by reading the project’s details or related publications.

• 2018 - 2020

Master Behavioural Ecology and Wildife Management
  Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Dijon

During this master specialised in Behavioural Ecology, Evolution and Conservation issues, I had the opportunity to conduct two research projects:

    1. Myanmar Timber Elephant Project
        Department of Biology - University of Turku, Finland
         Supervised by Virpi Lummaa, Michael Briga and Vérane Berger

In 2020, during the pandemic, I exploited the unique database of the Myanmar Timber Elephant Project. I described sex-specific body mass senescence in adult Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). For more details about the database and results, don’t hesitate to have a look at the project’s details or related publications.

    2. Ecology of fear in gammarids
      Biogéosciences (UMR6282) - Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Dijon
       Supervised by Marie-Jeanne Perrot-Minot and Marion Fayard

In 2019, I studied the behavioural responses (refuge use, phototaxis, reproduction) to predatory pressure in gammarids (Gammarus fossarum) collected in 15 natural populations across Burgundy. Check out the details here.

Other research experience

• 2023

Postdoctoral position in epidemiology
  LabEx ECOFECT - Comue Université de Lyon
   Supervised by Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Gilles Bourgoin and Dominique Pontier

Following my Ph.D., I worked as a postdoctoral fellow within the LabEx ECOFECT to investigate the presence and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in several natural populations of roe deer and other deer species across France, in regular contact with humans, in particular during scientific manipulations or hunting. Check out the details of the project or the resulting publication.

Teaching

Total amount of university-level teaching: ca. 600h.

During my Ph.D. I provided 192h of teachings to first-year student at the IUT Biology, Lyon 1. Most hours were dedicated to biostatistics, mixing lessons, tutorials and practicals using R, but included also animal biology practicals (digestive tract dissection in mice) and transversal teachings (scientific communication, professional projects).

After my Ph.D. and postdoc, I was recruited as a full-time teacher at the Institut National Universitaire Champollion, Albi (University of Toulouse, France). I taught mathematics, biostatistics, ecology, ethology, phylogeny, plant and animal physiology and biology, field studies in human-disturbed environments to bachelor students (1st to 3rd years). I completed 400h of teachings during that year, whether during lessons, tutorials or practicals and field work.

These experiences convinced me that my future professional career will involved both research and teaching, as I truly believe that education is the most efficient way to make things changed at all levels.

Programming experiences

For the past year, I have developed a strong interest towards programming. I am willing to improve my computational skills to develop new abilities to answer ecology, physiology, population biology and evolution related questions.

To do so, I have developed R packages aiming at facilitating model selection procedures for senescence and ageing studies (see selectools package) and simulating the Conway’s Game of Life (see conwaysGoL package).

This allows me to gain programming skills and to explore new approaches in computational biology and ecology, while toying with fun concepts. For example, conwaysGoL allowed me to explore simulation approaches in biology.

Next, I am willing to pursue this programming travel by exploring Graph Theory and Network Sciences by developing a program to simulate friendship networks.

Scientific evaluation activities

Review activity for:

• Journal of Inflammation Research
• Oikos
• Journal of Mammalogy
• Scientific Reports

Scientific communication/vulgarisation

• 2023

AXXIS - Bureau des Possibles, Lyon
Scientific communication to children - The scientific method

During this event, doctoral students communicated how science works to 6-8 years old, explaining the scientific methods by the mean of manual and critical thinking activities such as manipulating electrical circuit (in a safe way, obviously, at least not too many children were injured) or debunking fake scientific news.

Skills and certifications

• Formal training in Bioinformatics and Genomics, Université Lyon 1 (2026) - NGS data analyses: QC, alignment, variant calling, visualisation, splicing quantification, differential analyses, genome browser
• Animal experimentation certificate (Designer level), IUT Génie Biologie Lyon 1 (2021)
• One-Star Diver (supervised diving 20m) (2025) - planning on pursuing to 2-Stars Diver soon
• Field work: telemetry, animal handling, biological sampling
• Statistics: R, longitudinal datasets, database, GLMM, path analyses
• Programming: Nextflow, Python, R package development, bash, MySQL