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Appointments

Since Oct. 2024 : CNRS Senior Researcher, 1st class (DR1), at MAP5 (Université Paris Cité).
Oct. 2020 - Sept. 2024 : CNRS Senior Researcher, 2nd class (DR2), at MAP5 (UPCité).
Oct. 2010 - Aug. 2022 : part-time Assistant Professor (until Aug. 2020), then part-time Professor in the Applied Maths Department of École Polytechnique.
Oct. 2010 - Sept. 2020 : CNRS Junior Researcher at CMAP (École Polytechnique).

Training

Habilitation to direct research (November 2017, Paris-Sud University): Structured models of transmission.
From 2006 to 2009, Ph.D. under the supervision of Jean-François Le Gall (Paris-Sud U.) and Alison Etheridge (Oxford U.) 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

Director of the French institute of Mathematics for Planet Earth (since July 2024), member of the steering committee (since 2021).
Member of the steering committee of the research cooperation Mathematical modelling and biodiversity (since 2020).
Member of the steering committee of the Coordinated action on Infectious Diseases Modelling of ANRS | MIE (since 2021).
Deputy General Secretary in charge of the publications of the French mathematical learned society SMAI (since 2020), co-organiser of the Advisory Committee on EDP Sciences & SMAI's Subscribe to Open programme.
Member of the scientific committee of the CNRS thematic network "Mathematics, Health, Life Sciences" (since 2022).
Member of the scientific committee of the GIS Obépine (since 2022).
Member of the programme committee of the PEPR Maths-Vives (Priority research programme on Mathematics in interaction, for the living, the environment and the society, since 2024).
Member of the scientific committee of the Idex project ComplexCité of UPCité (since 2025).
Associate editor for Stochastic Processes and their Applications (2018-...) Annals of Applied Probability (2019-2024), Theoretical Population Biology (2020-...) and Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (2020-...).

Former head (with J.-S. Dhersin) of the MODCOV19 platform (2022-2023); member of the steering committee (2020-2023).
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).

Main former responsibilities

PhD students

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).
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).
Elisa Couvert (2022-...), Evolutionary processes leading to species diversification, co-supervised by Amaury Lambert (mathematician at ENS Paris).
Laurent Freoa (2020-2024), 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.).
Emilie Tezenas du Montcel (2020-2023), Mathematical models for the study of the interaction between recombination suppression and deleterious mutations in the vicinity of a mating type locus, co-supervised by Sylvain Billiard and Tatiana Giraud (evolutionary biologists at Univ. of Lille and CNRS & Univ. Paris-Saclay, respectively).
Apolline Louvet (2019-2022), Probabilistic population genetics models for expanding populations, co-supervised by Nathalie Machon (ecologist at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle).
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.).
Raphaël Forien (2014-2017), The spatial structure of genetic diversity under natural selection and in heterogeneous environments, co-supervised by Alison Etheridge (mathematician at Univ. of Oxford).