POSITIONS HELD

Since 2024

Director of Research CNRS - Directeur de Recherche Classe 2

Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (IRBI) - UMR 7261

CNRS / University of Tours, France

- Since 2025: President of Section 31 of the National Committee of Scientific Research (CoNRS)

- Since 2023: Board member of the doctoral school SSBCV - Co-director of the AEB section

- 2024-25 (2 years): Deputy director (adjoint de direction) of IRBI

2016 - 2024

Research Fellow CNRS - Chargé de Recherche

Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (IRBI) - UMR 7261

CNRS / University of Tours, France

- 2018 & 2020 (3 years): In charge of the research team ESORE

2012 - 2016

Assistant professor / Junior group leader

Department of Susanne Foitzik

Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution

Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany

2009 - 2012

Postdoctoral fellow

Group of Mathias Kölliker

Zoologisches Institut, Evolutionsbiologie

University of Basel, Switzerland

EDUCATION

2017

HDR - Habilitation to supervise research

University of Tours, France

2009

PhD in life sciences

Department of Ecology and Evolution

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

PhD thesis supervised by Michel Chapuisat (Co-supervisor: Laurent Keller)

2005

Master in life sciences (French system: Maitrise + Master 2 Recherche)

Speciality "Ecology, Biodiversity and Evolution"

University Paris VI & Paris XI, Paris France

Master thesis supervised by Jacob Koella

2003

Bachelor in life sciences (French system: DEUG + Licence)

Speciality "Biology of Populations and Ecosystems"

University Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

Bachelor thesis supervised by Laurent Dormont