You can download my full CV here: PDF (last update February 2022)

Research Positions

2021 – 2023

MSCA Postdoctoral fellow, CBD, Trondheim, Norway
Linking seasonal migration and dispersal: A large-scale demographic approach in a wild partially migratory metapopulation

2020 – 2021

Postdoctoral fellow, ISPRA, Bologna, Italy
Making informed breeding and foraging site selection decisions: the case of colonial breeders

2018 – 2019

Lecturer (E&R), University of Lyon, LBBE (Biometry & Evolutionary Biology Department)
Role of cognitive abilities on the use of social information

2014 – 2018

Ph.D. student, University of Lyon (France) and Uppsala University (Sweden)
Sources of variability in heterospecific social information use for breeding habitat selection: Role of genetics and personality in collared flycatchers

Education

2019

Qualifications for University Lecturer positions in ‘Population Biology and Ecology’ and ‘Organismal Biology’ (France)

2018

PhD in evolutionary and behavioural ecology. Joint international degree between the University of Lyon (LBBE – CNRS, France) and Uppsala University (Department of Ecology and Genetics, Animal Ecology, Sweden)

2012

MSc in ‘Ecology, Biodiversity, and Evolution’, specialisation in Evolutionary Ecology. AgroParisTech, Paris, France – Upper second-class honours

Analytical and Technical Skills

Analyses and software

Statistical analyses using the R software – including: Generalised Linear Mixed effects Models (Bayesian and frequentist framework) · Model averaging · Quantitative genetic “Animal models” (MCMCglmm R package, ASReml) · Survival models (Cox) · PCA
Quantitative genetics (part of the French research group on quantitative genetic studies in the wild)
Programming and algorithm development (very good command of R, good command of C++)
Database creation, development, handling (Access, SQL, R)
Bioacoustic analyses (Avisoft, Audacity)
GIS data handling (QGIS)
Social Network Analyses (basics, in R)

Field work skills

Management: Team leading in autonomy (up to 15 persons) and coordinating work among 3 international teams. Preparation and day-by-day field work planning.
Experiments: Designing, planning and implementing protocols.
Wild vertebrate ringing / tagging, measuring and handling: passerine birds (trapping in boxes and mist-netting), lesser kestrels, scopoli shearwaters, Adelie and Emperor penguins, snow and cape petrels, antarctic skuas, elephant seals (incl. anaesthesia), antarctic fur seals, Weddell seals.
Data collection: behavioural observations and personality tests, blood sampling, song recording and playback experiments, dissections, necropsies.
Logger deployment: GPS, accelerometers, TDR and Argos.