About Me
Who I am?
My research focuses on species behavioural adaptations to human altered landscapes, with an emphasis on urban species. I am interested in understanding the different trade-offs species are exposed when living in such environments. Shifting from Cape Town’s famous baboons to Sydney’s incredible cockatoos, my current aim is to uncover how movement ecology and social interactions mediate the colonisation of a new niche.
Passionate with what we can get from small tags attached to an animal, I dropped into the bio-logging sphere while I was conducting my master project in Strasbourg, DEPE, investigating how to access to fine behaviours thanks to acceleration signals. Ever since, I have been combining this cutting edge technologies and traditional direct observations to tackle fine questions about wildlife adaptations to human altered landscapes.
Research experience
Current position
Post-doctoral fellow
Cognitive and Cultural Ecology, Research group Aplin
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany
01/2018 – 02/2018
Research technician
Bio-logging consultancy
Swansea University, College of Biosciences,UK
07/2012 – 09/2013
Assistant engineer
Identifying badgers’ behaviour from acceleratometers’ data
DEPE, IPHC, Strasbourg, France
Education
10/2013 – 07/2017
PhD in zoology
Understanding baboon ecology in a human altered landscape
Swansea University, College of Biosciences,UK
09/2010 – 06/2012
Master in zoology
Sp. ecophysiology and ethology
Université de Strasbourg, Faculté des sciences de la vie, France
09/2010 – 06/2012
Undergraduate in biology
Sp. cellular biology and physiology
Université de Strasbourg, Faculté des sciences de la vie, France
Research interests
Behavioural ecology
Including multiple facets of animals' behaviour such as foraging and movement ecology, time/energy budgets, sociality, cognition.
Conservation biology
Studying both human and wildlife, and the conflicts that can arise from their interactions, this in order to enhance wildlife management.
New field technologies
Bio-logging, satelite imagery, drones, these new tools allow us to better understand what is hapenning out there.