Current position
- CNRS Research Scientist/Chargée de Recherche
UMR AMAP (Botany and Modelling of Plant Architecture and Vegetation), Montpellier (2011-…). - Research Affiliate (adjunct)
Paleobotany division, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute (2015-…)
Education & previous positions
- HDR (habilitation), Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 2018
- Postdoc in Paleobotany, University of Kansas, 2008-2011
- PhD, Paleontology, Paleobiology, Phylogeny, Université de Montpellier, 2007
- DEA (MSc.), Paleontology, Paleobiology, Phylogeny, Université de Montpellier, 2004
- Maitrise & Licence (BSc.) Organismal Biology, Université Toulouse 3, 1999-2003
Selected ongoing responsabilities
Department (UMR AMAP) & University
- Co-coordinator, research group Systematic and biogeography of extant and fossil plants, UMR AMAP
- Member, scientific committee, UMR AMAP
- Elected member, comité de section 67-68, Université de Montpellier
- Co-coordinator, Master program CEPAGE (Chrono-environments & Paleoecology), Université de Montpellier
External
- Associate editor, American Journal of Botany
Associate editor, IAWA Journal
Editorial board member, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology - Member, scientific commitee Tellus-Interrvie (CNRS-INSU)
- Vice-president, Groupe Français du Paléozoïque
Teaching
Teaching is done in addition to my current position, which is research-only. I teach about 20-30 hrs/year at Université de Montpellier in the following graduate (G) and undergraduate (U) courses:
- G – PACEE- Paléobiodiversité, changements environnementaux, moteurs de l’évolution
- G – Approches de l’écologie du temps long à aujourd’hui
- G – Evolution de la forme: contraintes phylogénétiques, développementales et fonctionnelles
- G – Le bois pour l’arbre 1
- U – Histoire des végétaux et des environnements naturels
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