Insects are beautiful and fascinating, aren’t they? Therefore, my research interests focuses on questions in ecology, conservation and evolution that can be answered by using insects as model systems. This includes applied research such as biological control, integrated pest/weed/invasive species management, conservation, as well as fundamental research such as behavior and evolution of reproductive modes.
2015 - 2019:
PhD: Parthenogenesis in mayflies
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Zoology Museum of Lausanne, Switzerland
Supervisors: Prof. Tanja Schwander & PD Michel Sartori
2014: Job
Agronomist, Research Engineer: The palmivorous pest Paysandisia archon (Lepidoptera: Castniidae): a radio-telemetry study
CIRAD, Agricultural research for development, Montpellier, France
Scientific department: Biological System
Internal Research Unit (UPR): Pests and Diseases: Risk Analysis and Control
2009-2013: Double degree
Agronomist, agricultural engineer with a specialization in Crop Protection (PROTEC)
ENSAIA (National School of Agronomy and Food Industries), University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
MSc in Biology and Ecology for the Forest, Agronomy and Environment (FAGE) with a specialization in Biology of Plant-Environment Interactions (IPE)
Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
Master thesis: How understanding ecological interactions provides tools for the integrated management of the weedy leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula)
European Biological Control Laboratory (EBCL), Montpellier, France
Board of Agriculture of Ain (Chambre d’Agriculture), Bourg-en-Bresse, France
Supervisors: Matthew Augé, René Sforza & Jean-Marc Contet
2011-2012: Gap year
Internship (5 months: Aug.-Dec.) in Madagascar with Madagascar National Parks
Manongarivo: Burnt land vs. paddy field, how to improve management of rice cultivations in the nature reserve
Tsimanampetsotse: Biology and ecology for the monitoring of species and habitats, biodiversity of turtles and plants of the national park
Internship (6 months: Feb.-July) in England on Integrated Diseases Management in Cereals
University of Nottingham, School of Biosciences, UK
Department of Plants and Crop Sciences
Supervisor: Prof. Rumiana Ray
Grants
2018:
Conference grant from UNIL Foundation (FUNIL – Fondation pour l’Université de Lausanne)
2016:
Fieldwork grant from the Vaudoise Entomological Society (SVE – Société Vaudoise d’Entomologie)
Conferences
2018:
Evolution. II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology – Montpellier, France
Talk : What ecological factors favour asexual over sexual reproduction? A study on the facultatively parthenogenetic mayfly Alainites muticus in natural populations.
International Conference on Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera – Aracruz, Brazil
Talk: Parthenogenesis and sex ratios in mayflies
Awarded for the best talk
2017:
ESEB. Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology – Groningen, The Netherlands
Poster: What ecological factors favor asexual over sexual reproduction? Changes in the frequency of sex across natural populations in the facultatively parthenogenetic mayfly species: Alainites muticus
2016:
Biology’16. The annual Swiss Conference on Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation – Lausanne, Switzerland
Talk: Can mate limitation select for parthenogenesis? A test in mayflies
2015:
International Conference on Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera – Aberdeen, Scotland
Poster: Sex and parthenogenesis in mayflies
2013:
CBI. 17ème Colloque de Biologie de l’Insecte – Montpellier, France
Poster: Jeunes longicornes et vieilles euphorbes: pas de conflit de générations (“Young longhorn beetle and old leafy spurge: no generational conflict”)
