CV
You may download my 2-pages CV as a PDF here.
Education
- 2012-2016: AgroParisTech, Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences.
- 1st and 2nd years, specialty: Sustainable agriculture and territories.
- Gap year: International Experience Certificate (CEI)
- 3rd year: M2 Mathematics for Life Sciences at Paris 11 University (Paris Saclay)
- MOOC Machine Learning, Stanford University, on Coursera. Certificate obtained on 11 march 2016.
- 2010-2012: LEGTA Auzeville, 1st and 2nd years of preparatory school BCPST (Biology-Chemistry and Maths). A-Bio 2012 ranking: 360th over 2915 candidates.
- 2009-2010: Lycée Pierre de Fermat, 1st year of preparatory school MPSI (Maths-Physics)
Professional Experience
- October 2023 to present: Permanent research scientist (Chargé de recherche /ISFP), INRIA, Iroko team , part of UMR LIRMM, University of Montpellier.
- February 2023 to September 2023: PostDoc INRIA for the MAMBO Horizon EU project, in the Pl@ntNet group, LIRMM, Montpellier, France. Supervisor: Alexis Joly (Inria).
- August 2021 to Present: PostDoc Fellow at Centre for Invasion Biology (C.I.B.) , Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Assessing the value of citizen science data to monitor plant invasions and study their dynamics. Supervision: Prof. David M. Richardson (C.I.B., Stellenbosch University) and Prof. Cang Hui ( BioMath , C.I.B., Stellenbosch University).
- December 2019 - June 2021 : PostDoc CNRS for the EcoNet project. Subject: Graphs embeddings for analysing architectural variations in ecological interaction networks across space, time and environments. In collaboration with Vincent Miele (CNRS, LBBE, Lyon), Stéphane Dray (CNRS, LBBE, Lyon), Catherine Mathias (CNRS, UPMC, Paris), Wilfried Thuiller (CNRS, LECA, Grenoble). Based in LECA, Grenoble.
- October 2016 - October 2019 : INRA PhD student at UMR AMAP, Montpellier. Subject : Statistical methods for niche modeling based on large presence only datasets coming from citizen sciences programs. Supervised by Alexis Joly (INRIA), Pascal Monestiez (INRA), Francois Munoz (U.Grenoble Alpes) and Pierre Bonnet (CIRAD).
- April 2016 - September 2016 (6 months): M2 research internship at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. Title: Functional regression over coarse resolution longitudinal data using Gaussian processes and its application to the prediction of survival time of patients from vital signs measurements. Supervised by Agathe GUILLOUX (UPMC) and Anne-Sophie JANNOT (APHP). Internship Report pdf.
- March 2015 - August 2015 (6 months) : Research internship in Limagrain Europe, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Topic : Optimization of plant breeding trial designs using relatedness information. Supervised by Nicolas HESLOT (head of Biostatistics, Limagrain Europe). We have used simulation to evaluate the potential gain of field designs optimized for genotypic relatedness. An algorithm has been developped later to reduce the computation time for producing such discrete designs : https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00815.
- September 2014 - February 2015 (6 months) : R & D internship at Plant Research (NZ) Ltd, Lincoln, New Zealand. Topic : Screening tools for breeding cover crop radish (Raphanus sativus) varieties. Supervised by Adrian Russell. Internship Report pdf. This work was an exploratory experimental (field and greenhouse) study. It participated to the birth, in 2017, of a new cover crop radish variety : Norwest Seeds' Smart Radish.
- June 2014 - July 2014 (2 months): Engineer internship, Associaton Terr'Avenir Nord-Pas-de-Calais, gathering agro-environnemental practices and identifying common indicators in a network of farmers certified ISO14001.
- April 2013 : Agricultural internship, EARL La Ferme En Coton. Supervised by Nicolas Petit. Multicrops and chicken breeding under organic farming in the Gers.
Supervised people
- Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2027: Co-supervisor of Raphael Benerradi, Phd student, Estimating temporal trends of plant species using Opportunistic Citizen science data. Funded by the University of Montpellier.
- Oct. 2025 to Sept. 2028: Co-supervisor of Pablo Ubilla, Phd student, Improving the transferability of Deep Species Distribution Models across space, environment and species. Funded by the ANR project EcoControl.
- Jun. 2025 to Sept. 2025: Co-supervisor of Marion Cann, M1, The complementarity of recent and palaeo climates in elucidating the fundamental ecological niche of plants through fossil pollen in Europe. Funded by Inria.
- Mar. 2025 to Jul. 2025: Co-supervisor of Massilya Raked, M1, The 2024 GHG emissions assessment and improvements to the carbon footprint at the Saint-Priest campus in Montpellier.
- Sep. 2023 to Apr. 2025: Co-supervisor of Maxime Ryckwaert, PostDoc, Deep Species Distribution Models for presence-only counts and satellite data cubes. Funded by the Horizon Europe project B3.
- Sept. 2023 to Mar. 2025: Co-supervisor of Vincent Espitalier, PostDoc, Adapting a global plant identification model to detect multiple plant species in high-resolution images. Funded by the Horizon Europe project MAMBO.
- Mar. 2024 to Nov. 2024: Co-supervisor of Louis Aury, M2, Bayesian estimation of the spatial dynamics of an invasion by combining opportunistic and standardised observations. Funded by Inria.
Other recent activities
Lecturer in statistics using R (lectures and tutorials) at the Institut Agro de Montpellier since 2024, member of Cisstats committee (https://cisstats.mathnum.inrae.fr/) and co-organisor of 2 workshops/seminars on INLA for spatial modeling of biodiversity (2023, 2025), member of the Scientific Committee of the Conservatoire d'Espaces Naturels d'Occitanie since janvier 2025, Co-referent of sustainable development at Inria Montpellier (e.g. Carbon footprint assessments, actions to reduce GES emissions, and for more circularity), animator of the Iroko monthly meeting, regular reviewer of several journals in ecology and its interfaces with statistics and informatics (e.g. Nature Communications, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Ecological Informatics, STOTEN, Biological conservation, Bulletin of mathematical biology), Co-organisor of the annual campaigns GeoLifeCLEF for benchmarking SDMs (2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024).Skills
- English : Fluent
- Spanish : Intermediate
- programming: Advanced in R (Especially for spatial data treatment, statistical analysis/learning and vizualization), intermediate in Python
Interests, others
- Small scale agriculture and forestry since 2016.
- Road cycling, surf, botany.
- Driving licence B and car.