Photo ©M. Seigal
 
     When hiking and climbing in the mountains or diving in the tropics, I am always blown away by the beauty of nature. Climate change and local disturbances resulting from human activities are threatening the biodiversity of our planet - from an ecosystem point of view down to microbes and genes. We are now facing a multitude of challenges as a human family and it is our duty to act for the preservation of our ecosystems. Comprehensive actions at the political level must be undertaken. However, it is also up to us as individuals to be the change we seek. Through our lifestyle changes – we can, together, contribute and build a future that will benefit the ecosystems of our planet and the next generations.

    As an aquatic ecologist and environmental engineer, my research seeks to increase our understanding on how global climate change and local human impacts such as pollution alter the biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems such as coral reefs and glacier-fed streams. For this, I combine multidisciplinary approaches including controlled manipulative experiments, field sampling, animal physiology, biogeochemistry, molecular biology, and omics related methods
 
In the past few years, I have worked as a Research Fellow affiliated to:

-UMR MARBEC at the University of Montpellier supervised by Dr. Sébastien Villéger and funded by the European Commission - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (2023-2024).

-Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the lab of Prof. Tom Battin (RIVER) and funded by the NOMIS Foundation (2021-2022).

-UC Santa Barbara in the groups of Prof. Deron Burkepile and Prof. Rebecca Vega Thurber funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (2017-2020).

In my free time, I can be found hiking and climbing in the nearest natural parks and diving in the Med Sea or the tropics.
Education

2013-2016 - Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences - Sorbonne University (FR)
2006-2012 - MSc. and BSc. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering - EPFL (CH)