I am a CNRS Research Director and head of the Ecology & Evolution of Health (EEH) team within the CIRB at the Collège de France in Paris.
I use ecology & evolution concepts and tools, especially modelling, to tackle health-related questions. I am particularly interested in human viruses such as papillomaviruses, HIV, or SARS-Cov-2.2013 | Habilitation (HDR, Université Montpellier 2) |
2006 | PhD in ecology and evolution (Université Paris 6) |
2003 | Magistère in biology (ENS) |
2000 | Admission at the ENS Cachan (biology-biochemestry track) |
since 2022 | Head of the Ecology and Evolution of Health (EEH) team in the CIRB research unit in Paris |
since 2017 | Directeur de Recherche at CNRS |
2013-2020 | Head of the Experimental and Theoretical Evolution (ETE) team in the MIVEGEC research unit |
2010-2017 | Chargé de Recherche at the CNRS in Montpellier (France) |
2008-2009 | ETH fellow with Sebastian Bonhoeffer at ETH Zürich (Switzerland) |
2006-2008 | Post-doctoral fellow with Troy Day and Peter Taylor at Queen's University (Canada) |
2003-2006 | PhD with Minus van Baalen at Université Paris 6 (France) |
since 2010 | Teaching approximately 15h/year to MSc students in French universities (currently mostly in the IMaLiS master). |
2007-2008 | Teaching 72h/year (game theory and calculus for biologists) in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University. |
2003-2006 | Teaching 64h/year in computer sciences for biologists, ecology and evolution at Université Paris 6. |
2023-2028 | ANR DEELOGENY project (partner). |
2023-2026 | Sidaction PhD funding for Louis Colliot (co-supervision: Laurence Meyer). |
2023-2026 | dim1health PhD funding for Vincent Garot (co-supervision: Laurent Jacob). |
2023-2027 | ANR CUPS2 research project. |
2022-2025 | ANRS-MIE PhD funding for Olivier Supplisson. |
2020-2021 | Occitanie region and ANR funding for the call « Urgence COVID ». |
2019-2022 | FHU InCh PhD funding for Başak Uysal. |
2019-2022 | Ligue contre le cancer PhD fellowship to Thomas Bénéteau. |
2017-2020 | Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale fellowship to Gonché Danesh. |
2015-2020 | Consolidator grant from the ERC. |
2016-2017 | Sidaction funding for Emma Saulnier's 4th PhD year. |
2013-2016 | PEPS PhD funding from CNRS and the UMontpellier for Emma Saulnier. |
2012-2015 | ATIP-Avenir grant from CNRS and INSERM. |
2008-2009 | ETH fellowship from ETH Zürich. |
Editor for PLoS Computational Biology in charge of Review articles since 2018 |
Recommender for Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology since 2017 |
Associated Editor for PLoS Computational Biology from 2016 to 2018 |
Member of the editorial board of Virulence from 2013 to 2018. |
Reviewing Editor for the Journal of Evolutionary Biology from 2011 to 2015. |
I deleted by Publons reviewer account because since it has been bought by Web of Science it is now only about h-index but some of my reviewing work is lised on ORCID.