This page presents the students, visiting researchers & postdocs that I work(ed) with and their projects.

2023 / Ongoing

Thibault DURIEUX – PhD student, Trinity College Dublin.
Project: Early woody plant diversity and biology: An integrative evolutionary and palaeoenvironmental study
Funding: TCD Provost’s PhD Project Award
Main advisor: C. J. Harper (TCD), co-advisor: A.-L. Decombeix
September 2021-sept. 2025
TCD Homepage. Research Gate profile.

Mathilde LE PALLEC – 2nd year Master student, Université de Rennes.
Project: The early Permian flora of the Lodeve Basin
Advisor: A.-L. Decombeix
January-June 2023

Past

Note: Master students in France do two different research internships, one in their first year (M1, 2-3 months full time) and one in their second year (M2, 5-6 months full time). BSc./summer projects are usually 1 month full time.

2022 Maddalena PASSELERGUE –– Master student in paleobiology (M1 CEPAGE), Montpellier.
Project: Growth rings in Archaeopteris wood from the Late Devonian of Morocco.
Advisors: B. Meyer-Berthaud, A.-L. Decombeix
2022 Lily BENNETT–Master student (M1 Erasmus Mundus in Evolutionary Biology), Montpellier.
Project: Secondary phloem evolution.
Advisor: A.-L. Decombeix
2021 Candys BERT – Master student in paleobiology (M2 CEPAGE), Montpellier.
Project: A new assemblage of Middle Devonian permineralized plants from Morocco [see communication abstract]
Advisors: B. Meyer-Berthaud, A.-L. Decombeix
2021 Aixa TOSAL – Visiting researcher, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Project: Anatomy of silicified woods from the Carboniferous of the Catalan Pyrenees [see communication abstract]
Funding: Fundació Pedro i Pons
2021 Maddalena PASSELERGUE – L3 (BSc.), Montpellier
Project: Early Carboniferous lycopsids from the Montagne Noire (Hérault, France)
Advisors: A.-L. Decombeix, B. Meyer-Berthaud
2020 Flora GARCIA– Master student in paleobiology (M1 CEPAGE), Montpellier.
Growth rings in Permian woods and their interpretation
Advisor: A.-L. Decombeix (remote work only due to Covid-19)
2020 Candys BERT– Master student in paleobiology (M1 CEPAGE), Montpellier.
Growth rings in Devonian and Carboniferous woods and their interpretation
Advisor A.-L. Decombeix (remote work only due to Covid-19)
2019 Thibault DURIEUX– Master student in paleobiology (M1 CEPAGE), Montpellier.
Agents of wood degradation in high latitude Paleozoic environments: roots, coprolites, and fungi in Permian trunks from Antarctica [see publication]
Advisors: A.-L. Decombeix & C.J. Harper
2019 Cécile VIGNES– Postgraduate student (année de césure), Toulouse.
Wood evolution in Devonian plants [see poster abstract]
Advisors: B. Meyer-Berthaud & A.-L. Decombeix
2019 Candela BLANCO MORENO – visiting PhD student, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Dirs. A. Buscalioni & B. Gomez.
Three month stay to study the anatomy of the Cretaceous fern Weichselia reticulata [see publication]
2018 Malo TARTEVET– Master 2 SEP (Paleontology), Paris.
Early Carboniferous (pro)gymnosperms from Montagne Noire : morpho-anatomical disparity of conductive tissues and their functional implications [see poster abstract]
Advisor: A.-L. Decombeix
2017 
Hugues TERREAUX DE FELICE– Master 1 CEPAGE (Paleobiology), Montpellier.
Early Carboniferous Sphenophyllales from France and Germany [see publication]
Advisor: A.-L. Decombeix
2017 Antoine CHAMPREUX– Master 2 CEPAGE (Paleobiology), Montpellier.
Ferns-like plants from the Barraba flora (Late Devonian, Australia) [see publication]
Advisors: B. Meyer-Berthaud & A.-L. Decombeix.
2017 Fanny GAVERIAUX – Short summer research project M1 CEPAGE, Montpellier.
Ginkgophytes from the Permian of Lodève [see poster abstract]
Advisor: A.-L. Decombeix
2016
 Mélanie TANRATTANA– Master 2 SEP (Paleontology), Paris.
Lare Devonian Archaeopteridales from Morocco: systematic and functional study [see publication]
Advisors: B. Meyer-Berthaud, J.-F. Barczi, A.-L. Decombeix & J.P. Wilson.
2016 Agathe TOUMOULIN– Master 1 CEPAGE (Paleobiology), Montpellier.
Early Jurassic woods from Carapace Nunatak, South Victoria Land, Antarctica : affinities and environmental implications [see poster abstract]
Advisors: A.-L. Decombeix & E.L. Taylor.
2015
 Pierre-André WAITE – Master 2 BVT (Tropical Botany), Montpellier.
The leaf-stem continuum : the case of Guarea guidonia, with an anatomical, morphological and architectural study of several species of tropical Sapindales.
Advisors: E. Nicolini & A-L Decombeix.
2015 Bertrand LALOUX – Master 1 BOE (Organismal Biology & Ecology), Louvain.
The presence of Pitus and Eristophyton in the Tournaisian of NE Queensland, Australia : biogeographical, paleoclimatic and taxonomic implications [see publication]
Advisors: A.-L. Decombeix & R. Wesseling.
2015 Dorothée LETELLIER – L3 (BSc.), Montpellier.
Affinities and architecture of woody roots from the Early Carboniferous of Montagne Noire [see publication].
Advisors: A.-L. Decombeix & B. Meyer-Berthaud.
2015 Antoine CHAMPREUX – L3 (BSc.), Montpellier.
Permian permineralized woods from Autun [see poster abstract]
Advisors: B. Meyer-Berthaud & A.-L. Decombeix
2014
Pierre-André WAITE – Master 1 BVT (Tropical Botany), Montpellier.
Leaf or shoot ? Morphological and anatomical study of the coumpound indeterminate leaves of Guarea guidonia (Sapindales).
Advisors: A.-L. Decombeix & E. Nicolini.
2014 Dorothée LETELLIER – L2 (BSc.), Montpellier.
Affinities and architecture of woody roots from the Early Carboniferous of Montagne Noire.
Advisors: A.-L. Decombeix & B. Meyer-Berthaud.
2014 Mélanie TANRATTANA – L3 (BSc.), Toulouse.
A new species of Callixylon (Archaeopteridales) in the Late Devonian of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas? [see publication]
Advisors: B. Meyer-Berthaud & A.-L. Decombeix
2012
Mathilde EVREINOFF – Master 2 PPP (Paleontology), Montpellier.
Late Devonian lycopsids from (NSW, Australia) –  Using high resolution  X-ray tomography to study a bisporangiate cone [see publication]
Advisors: B. Meyer-Berthaud & A.-L. Decombeix.
2007…
 Romain BLANCHARD – Master 1 PPP (Paleontology), Montpellier.
The Devonian flora of Barraba, NSW (Australia) [see publication]
Advisors: B. Meyer-Berthaud & A.-L. Decombeix