Appointments
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Since Oct. 2020 : CNRS Senior Researcher at MAP5 (Univ. Paris Cité).
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Oct. 2010 - Aug. 2022 : part-time Assistant Professor (until Aug. 2020), then part-time Professor in the Applied Maths Department of École Polytechnique.
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Oct. 2010 - Sept. 2020 : CNRS Junior Researcher at CMAP (École Polytechnique).
Training
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Habilitation à diriger les recherches (November 2017): Structured models of transmission.
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From 2006 to 2009, Ph.D. under the supervision of Jean-François Le Gall (Paris-Sud) and Alison Etheridge (Oxford) at the University of Paris-Sud. The manuscript of the thesis, entitled Limit theorems for some spatial branching and coalescent processes, is available here.
Current responsibilities
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Member of the steering committee of the research cooperation (chaire) Mathematical modelling and biodiversity.
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Member of the steering committee of the French institute of Mathematics for Planet Earth.
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Member of the steering committee of the Coordinated action "Modelling of infectious diseases" of ANRS | MIE.
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Member of the scientific committee of the Thematic Network "Mathematics, Health, Life Sciences" of CNRS Mathématiques.
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Former head (with J.-S. Dhersin) of the MODCOV19 platform (2022-2023); member of the steering committee (2020-2023).
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Deputy President in charge of the publications of the French mathematical learned society SMAI, co-organiser of the Advisory Committee on EDP Sciences & SMAI's Subscribe to Open programme.
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Associate editor for Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Annals of Applied Probability, Theoretical Population Biology and Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena.
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Guest editor for the special issue on Celebrating Alison Etheridge’s contribution to mathematical population genetics, Theoretical Population Biology (jointly with Sarah Penington and Anja Sturm, publication in progress).
PhD students
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Ariel Offenstadt (2023-...), Modelling the stepwise cessation of recombination around sex-determining genes: identifying the temporal and genomic scales involved, co-supervised by Sylvain Billiard and Tatiana Giraud (evolutionary biologists at Univ. of Lille and CNRS & Univ. Paris-Saclay, respectively).
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Lena Kuwata (2022-...), Modelling communication within an organised network: the case of filamentous fungi, co-supervised by Florence Chapeland-Leclerc (mycologist at Univ. Paris Cité).
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Elisa Couvert (2022-...), Evolutionary processes leading to species diversification, co-supervised by Amaury Lambert (mathematician at ENS Paris).
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Laurent Freoa (2020-...), Integrative analysis of the role of pigmentation in the adaptation of drosophila to spatial and temporal temperature heterogeneities, co-supervised by Jean-Michel Gibert (developmental biologist at CNRS & Sorbonne Univ.).
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Emilie Tezenas du Montcel (2020-2023), Mathematical modelling of the evolution of non-recombining regions on sex chromosomes, co-supervised by Sylvain Billiard and Tatiana Giraud (evolutionary biologists at Univ. of Lille and CNRS & Univ. Paris-Saclay, respectively).
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Apolline Louvet (2019-2022), Stochastic population genetics models for expanding populations, co-supervised by Nathalie Machon (ecologist at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle).
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Anne Van Gorp Lanvin (2017-2022), Multi-scale modelling of the intra-cellular actin dynamics, co-supervised by François Robin (developmental biologist at INSERM & Sorbonne Univ.).
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Raphaël Forien (2014-2017), The spatial structure of genetic diversity : influence of natural selection and of inhomogeneous environments, co-supervised by Alison Etheridge (mathematician at Univ. of Oxford).