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CNRS Researcher, 1st Grade (CR1)

Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)
1 Rue des Louvels
80037 Amiens Cedex 1
Born on September 4th 1981

Education

• 27/02/2009: PhD in Forest Science, the Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food, and Environmental Science (AgrosParisTech), Nancy, France
• 09/09/2005: Master’s degree in Forest Engineering, the French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (ENGREF), Nancy, France

Employment

• 01/10/2017-onward: CNRS Researcher, 1st Grade (CR1), in Ecology in the Research Unit “Ecologie et dynamiques des sytèmes anthropisés” (Edysan) FRE 3498 CNRS-UPJV, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), Amiens, France
• 01/10/2011-30/09/2017: Associate Professor in Biostatistics in the Research Unit “Ecologie et dynamiques des sytèmes anthropisés” (Edysan) FRE 3498 CNRS-UPJV, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), Amiens, France
• 01/12/2008-30/09/2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Plant Macroecology in the Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity Group, Aarhus University (AU), Aarhus, Denmark
• 01/10/2008-30/11/2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forest Ecology in the Research Unit “Laboratoire d’étude des ressources forêts-bois” (LERFoB), Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food, and Environmental Science (AgrosParisTech), Nancy, France
• 01/10/2005-30/09/2008: PhD student in Forest Science in the Research Unit “Laboratoire d’étude des ressources forêts-bois” (LERFoB), Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food, and Environmental Science (AgrosParisTech), Nancy, France

Research interests

With a background in forest vegetation sciences, my research aims to achieve a better understanding of the ecological dynamics associated with spatial and temporal global changes, with particular emphasis on the biotic responses of forest ecosystems to contemporary climate change. I have been particularly interested in species range shifts (upslope along elevational gradients and poleward along the latitudinal gradient) as global climate warms and I participated in several qualitative and quantitative reviews on biodiversity redistribution. My skills cover the fields of biogeography, biostatistics, ecoinformatics, forest sciences, macroecology, microclimate ecology, metacommunity dynamics, remote sensing, spatial statistics, species redistribution and plant ecology. My current projects involve: (i) the study of the impact of forest microclimate dynamics in the biotic responses of understory plant communities to macroclimate warming; (ii) the development of fine-grained habitat suitability models based on remotely-sensed data; and (iii) the compilation of continental scale databases on biodiversity distribution (e.g. EVA, sPlot), species range shifts (e.g. Bioshifts) and soil or near-surface microclimates (e.g. SoilTemp).

Research grants

• 01/10/2019-31/12/2023: “IMpacts des PRocessus mIcroclimatiques sur la redistributioN de la biodiversiTé forestière en contexte de réchauffement du macroclimat“ (IMPRINT) funded by the ANR JCJC, 300 000 EUR
• 01/01/2017-31/12/2018: “MOdélisation du Réchauffement microclimatique sous couvert FOrestier” (MORFO) funded by the Défi interdisciplinaire INFINITI from the CNRS, 6 000 EUR
• 01/01/2014-31/12/2016: “Detection of Invasive plant species and Assessment of their impact on ecosystem properties through Remote Sensing” (DIARS) funded by the ERA-Net BiodivERsA, 217 438 EUR
• 01/01/2014-31/12/2014: “Les ravins boisés en milieux de grandes cultures” (CREUSE) funded by the SFR Condorcet, 10 000 EUR

Scientific outreach

I am author or co-author of 129 (14 as first author) peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals and of 4 (as first author) publications in other journals and books (including my PhD dissertation): total citations = 10 635; h-index = 46; i10-index = 87 (Source: Google Scholar)

Teaching

Biostatistics – R programming – Community Ecology – Forest Ecology – Functional Ecology – Landscape Ecology – Biogeography – Climate Change

Supervision

• 13/02/2020-onward: Jacqueline Souza Lima (PostDDoc)
• 13/01/2020-onward: Eva gril (PhD)
• 01/10/2017-29/01/2021: Pedro Poli (PhD)
• 01/07/2018-31/01/2020: Benoît Richard (PostDoc)
• 01/03/2016-06/09/2019: Ali Almoussawi (PhD)
• 01/01/2016-31/12/2016: Carol X Garzón‐López (PostDoc)
• 01/01/2015-31/12/2016: Tarek Hattab (PostDoc)
• 01/10/2011-30/09/2014: Safaa Wasof (PhD)

External expert for scientific journals

Science – Nature – Nature Climate Change – Nature Communications – PNAS – Scientific Reports – PLoS Biology – PLoS ONE – Ecology Letters – Global Change Biology – Global Ecology and Biogeography – Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences – Journal of Ecology – Journal of Applied Ecology – Journal of Biogeography – Diversity and Distribution – Ecography – Ecosystems – Oikos – Ecology – Ecological Monograph – Environmental Research Letters – Biology Letters – Functional Ecology – Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics – Journal of vegetation Science – Applied Vegetation Science – Folia Geobotanica – Plant Ecology and Diversity – Plant Ecology – Agriculture and Forest Meteorology – Forest Ecology and Management – Canadian Journal of Forest Research – Annals of Forest Science – Annals of Botany – Climatic Change – AMBIO A Journal of the Human Environment – Acta Oecologica – Journal of Tropical Ecology – International Journal of Biometeorology – Marine Ecology Progress Series – Frontiers of Biogeography – Weed Research

External expert for funding agencies

ERC (European Research Council) [x1] – NERC (Natural Environmental Research Council) [x1] – Labex ARBRE (Recherches Avancées sur la Biologie de l’Arbre et les Ecosystèmes Forestiers) [x2] – NSF (National Science Foundation) [x1] – GACR (Czech Science Foundation) [x1] – FRQ (Fond de Recherche du Québec Nature et Technologies) [x1] – COST actions for the Forests, their Products and Services (FPS) Domain (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) [x3]

Awards

• 01/07/2019: Runner Up of the 3rd (2017) Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution (The E4 Award) for a review paper entitled “Incorporating microclimate into species distribution models”, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
• 22/01/2018: Co-recipient of the W.S. Cooper Award for the paper entitled “Disturbance is the key to plant invasions in cold environments”, Ecological Society of America, Washington, USA
• 01/02/2017: Runner Up of the 1st (2015) Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution (The E4 Award) for a review paper entitled “Climatic microrefugia under anthropogenic climate change: implications for species redistribution”, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
• 01/10/2015: National Award for Outstanding Research and Supervision aka “Prime d’Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche (PEDR) 2015-2019”, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, France
• 26/02/2010: Third Price in the Young Investigator Competition at the 9th International Meeting on Vegetation Databases for a talk presentation entitled “Pleistocene Climate Change Legacies on Current Species Diversity in European Montane Plant Communities”, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• 27/11/2009: Award of the Best Thesis entitled “Impacts of a Rapid Climate Change on Forest Plant Species Distribution Along Elevational Gradients”, Région Lorraine, Metz, France
• 16/02/2007: Award of the Best Student Talk at the 49th Annual Conference of the International Association of Vegetation Science for a talk presentation entitled “Western European Forest Plant Species Move Up in Response to Climate Change”, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand