CURRENT PROJECTS
I study the social and spatial dimensions of hunting in tropical forests. Since 2019, an important effort of community monitoring enabled to collect a unique dataset about wildlife and hunting practices in central Gabon. As a postdoc in Forests and Societies, I link GPS data, camera traps, hunting bags and social data to disentangle the social and ecological drivers of hunting strategies.
PAST PROJECTS
- In 2024 and 2025, I had a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral position in IREC (Spain) working with Beatriz Arroyo and Miguel Delibes-Mateos. I mainly worked at understanding stakeholders perceptions of wildlife adaptive management in EU (working on the publications). Meanwhile, I also participated in investigating short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) migratory behaviour, working with François Mougeot, and investigating social preferences for the management of the Egyptian mongoose expansion in Spain.
- As a previous postdoc at the CEFE in Montpellier, I worked with Aurélien Besnard as a member of Human-Animal Interaction group. I was onboard the Migralion project with France Energies Marines, an ambituous research program funded by the French Biodiversity Office aiming at studying birds migration in the Gulf of Lion (Northwestern Mediterranean Sea). I was in charge of developing integrated models combining telemetry, counts, and radar data.
- Understanding the role of ecological monitoring in the functioning of Marine Protected Areas of the French Mediterranean Sea (more details here)
- Developing integrated models to combine distance sampling and Spatial-Capture Recapture data from bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus).
- Understanding conservation conflicts associated with rodent outbreaks in farmland areas (more here).
- Mapping wolf recolonization in France accounting for species misidentification and including uncertain data (more details here).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Around 200h of teaching in ecology, statistics, and wildlife management at the University of Montpellier, France.
- Workshop about Introduction to Bayesian statistics for ecologists in IREC-CSIC, Spain (materials here)