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Samuel Alizon

Research director at the CNRS and exploiter team leader. Theoretical evolutionary ecologist specialised in the study of the interactions between humans populations and microbes, especially HIV, human papillomaviruses, or SARS-Cov-2, but also the vaginal microbiota.


Inayat Bhardwaj

Post-doctoral fellow from ANRS-MIE on modelling HPV and vaginal microbiota.

Vincent Garot

PhD candidate funded by dim1health on machine learning in phylodynamics (co-supervisor: Laurent Jacob).

Quentin Chaung

PhD candidate funded by the PSL biology doctoral school on vaginal microbiota metagenomics (co-supervisor: Laurent Jacob).

Rose Marin

PhD candidate funded by the CNRS on HPV dynamics and evolution across scales (co-supervisor: Antoine Gross).

Anaïs Mazurier

ANRS biostatistics engineeer cosupervised by Anne Thiébaut and Mircea T Sofonea.

Louis Colliot

PhD candidate funded by Sidaction on modelling HIV transmission in France using phylodynamics approaches (co-advisor: Laurence Meyer)).

Paul Petit

PhD candidate funded by the Sidaction on HIV virus load epidemiology and evolution (co-supervisor: Mircea T Sofonea).

Amélie Raux

Agroparistech internship on analysing high-dimensional clinical datasets (co-supervisor: Inayat Bhardwaj).


Escapees


Post-doc

Matthew Hartfield

ATIP-Avenir-funded post-doctoral fellow (2012-2014) on virus evolutionary dynamics. Now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

Carmen Lía Murall

ERC-funded Post-doctoral fellow on papillomavirus ecology and evolution (2015-2018). Now Senior scientist at the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Christian Selinger

ERC-funded Post-doctoral fellow in biostatistics, genomics and epidemiology (2017-2019). Now senior post-doctoral fellow in Basel (Switzerland).

Tsukushi Kamiya

FRM post-doctoral research fellow working on vaginal microbiota dynamics (2021-2024). Now an Health Services Researcher at HIQA (Ireland).

Imène Melki

Post-doctoral researcher on the ANR CUPS2 project (2023-2024).

Nicolas Tessandier

ANRS-MIE post-doctoral research fellow working on HPV immunology (2021-2024). Currently junior group leader in Montpellier.



PhD candidates

Mircea Sofonea

ENS-funded PhD candidate (2014-2017) on modelling multiple infections and virulence evolution (co-supervisor: Yannis Michalakis). Now Assistant Professor at the University of Montpellier

Emma Saulnier-Fiot

Montpellier University-funded PhD candidate (2013-2017) in Viral phylodynamics (co-advisor: Olivier Gascuel). Now data scientist in in the private sector


Jérôme Bourret

Montpellier University-funded PhD candidate (2017-2020) working on analysing codon usage preference (co-supervisor: Nacho Bravo). Currently research engineer at the Pasteur Institute (Paris)

Gonché Danesh

FRM-funded PhD candidate (2017-2021) on phylodynamics of HIV and coinfecting viruses (co-supervisor: Marc Choisy). Currently a post-doctoral fellow at IBENS Paris

Başak Uysal

FHU-funded PhD candidate (2020-2023) on vaginal microbiota and viral infections (co-supervisors: Vincent Foulongne and Nicolas Tessandier). Currently advisor in the private sector

Bastien Reyné

Montpellier University-funded PhD candidate (2020-2023) working on modelling memory effects in epidemiology (co-supervisors: Christian Selinger and Mircea Sofonea). Currently a post-doctoral fellow in Montpellier

Thomas Bénéteau

LcC-funded PhD candidate (2019-2023) on modelling virus stochastic dynamics (co-supervisors: Mircea Sofonea and Christian Selinger). Currently a post-doctoral fellow at IAME in Paris

Baptiste Elie

ENS-Cahan-funded PhD candidate working on HPV ecology and evolution (co-supervisors: Nacho Bravo and Vincent Foulongne). Currently post-doctoral fellow at the University of Zürich

Olivier Supplisson

ANRS-MIE-funded PhD candidate on modeling herpesvirus seroepidemiology in France (co-supervisors: Mircea T Sofonea and Sonia Burrel). Currently an ARC post-doctoral fellow at the CRESS in Paris



MSc students

Mathieu Moslonka-Lefebvre

MSc Student at ETH (2009) on modelling epidemics on networks (co-supervisor: Sebastian Bonhoeffer).

Susan V. Cousineau

MEME MSc Student (2011-2012) on sex heterogeneity and the evolution of virulence.

Eileen Rebecca Butterfield

MEME MSc Student (2011-2012) on the project modelling the evolution of resistance and tolerance (co-supervisor: Yannis Michalakis).

Jessica Abbate

Chateaubriand fellowship (2011) on epidemiological modelling of plant pathogens (supervisor: Janic Antonovics).

Guilhem Heinrich

MSA MSc Student (2012) on linking epidemiology and phylogenetics (co-supervisor: Olivier Gascuel).

Eugene Geidelberg

MEME MSc Student (2014-2015) on modelling the evolution of drug resistance in HIV at the within- and between-host levels.

Tsukushi Kamiya

MEME MSc Student (2014) on the coevolution of immunosuppression and virulence.

Lafi Aldakak

MEME MSc Student (2015) on modelling ebola virus virulence evolution (co-supervisor: Mircea Sofonea).

Yağmur E. Erten

MEME MSc Student (2015) on modelling virulence evolution in a heterogeneous environment (co-supervisor: Sébastien Lion).

Danesh Gonché

BCD MSc student (2016) working on viral phylodynamics and the PANGEA contest (co-supervisor : Emma Saulnier).

Diede de Haan

MEME MSc student (2016) working on bioinformatics and virus genomics (co-supervisor : Nacho Bravo).

Luis F. V. V. Boullosa

MEME MSc student (2016) working on modelling virulence evolution (co-supervisor : Mircea Sofonea).

Stefano Tiso

MEME MSc student (2017) working on HPV diversity evolution (co-supervisor : Carmen Lía Murall).


Camille Mayeux

B2E MSc student (2018) working on HPV epidemiology (co-supervisor: Nacho Bravo).

Julien Lombard

MODE MSc1 student (2019) on modelling coinfections and drug resistance (co-supervisors: Mircea Sofonea and Ramsès Djidjou-Demasse).

Dennis Lopez

MD and Biology & Health MSc1 student (2019) on HPV infections in young women.

Dorian Vlaeminck

Physics and engineering of life MSc1 student (2019) on epidemics on networks (co-supervisor: Christian Selinger).

Thomas Bénéteau

MDV MSc2 student (2019) on modelling HPV within-cell dynamics (co-supervisors: Mircea Sofonea and Christian Selinger).

Mahé Liabeuf

Undergrad student (2019) on phylodynamics (co-supervisor: Gonché Danesh).

Afra Salazar

MEME MSc1 student (2020) working on modelling the evolution of the asymptomatic period.

Baptiste Elie

EBE MSc2 (2020) working on memory effects in epidemiology (co-supervisor: Christian Selinger).

Jean Pachebat

Intern from Télécom Paris (2021) working on analysing COVID-19 time series (co-supervisor: Christian Selinger).

Quentin Chaung

Intern from ENS Cachan (2021) on PAPCLEAR clinical data analyses (co-supervisor: Nicolas Tessandier).

Louis Colliot

M1 internship from Lille University (2022) on phylodynamics and the PANGEA contest (co-supervisor: Gonché Danesh).

Molly Edbrooke

IMaLiS MSc internship (2023) on HPV within-host evolution (co-supervisor: Gonché Danesh).

Vincent Garot

MVA MSc internship (2023) on phylodynamics (main supervisor: Laurent Jacob).

Emma Kerioui

ISPED MSc internship (2023) on COVID-19 epidemic waves analysis (co-supervisor: Olivier Supplisson).

Auriane Rousselle

Last year intership from IPSA (2023) working on modeling HPV infections.

Quentin Chaung

IMaLiS MSc2 internship (2024) on vaginal microbiota metagenomics.

Alice Gallot

ENS biology internship (2024) on experimental immersion on HPV and vaginal microbiota modelling.

Calypso Arvois

MPCI L3 internship from AMU (2024) on simuating phylogenies of infections.

Paul Petit

MSc2 internship from ENS-Lyon biology master (2025) on analysing HIV genomics data.

Bastien Manifacier

ENS biology internship (2025) in experimental immersion on stochastic modelling of HPV dynamics.

Rose Marin

MSc2 internship from ENS-Saclay (2025) on HPV and vaginal microbiota within-host evolution.

Ina Câmpan

ENSAE intership (2025) to develop an epidemiology dashboard (main supervisor: Olivier Supplisson).

Amira Chabani

MSc1 intern from the BCM master (2025) working on the EPIDEMAP project (co-supervisors : Mircea T Sofonea et Olivier Thomine.



Engineers

Pauline Ben Soussan

Clinical Research Associate (CRA) on the CUPS2 project (2025). Now a tenured CRA in the private sector for the Téléthon.

Vanina Boué

Engineer in biology working on the EVOLPROOF project (2018-2023).

Corentin Boennec

Engineer in data science working on modelling, bioinformatics, and software development for COVID-19 (2020-2021). Now a PhD in Toulouse.

Claire Bernat

Engineer on the EVOLPROOF project (2017-2018). Now a CNRS engineer at the IGF in Montpellier.

Mélanie Pélissou

Technician in biology (2017-2018) on the EVOLPROOF project. Now working at ID.vet.

Massilva Rahmoun

CNRS engineer in immunology and clinical researcher (2014-2020). Now working at CNRS.

Gaëtan Peris

Computer scientist (2016) working on the EVOLPROOF project. Now working at GFI.

Soraya Groc

TEC on the project EVOLPROOF (2018-2020). Now working at CHU Montpellier.

Sophie Grasset

TRC on the project EVOLPROOF (2018-2020). Now working at CHU Montpellier.

Matthieu Jung

Research engineer in computer sciences on the PEPS project (2012). Now at the CNRS in Strasbourg at the IGBMC.