Education
2014 - 2018
PhD, Probabilistic modeling in evolutionary biology
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, ENS et Collège de France, Paris
Prospecting for unconventional hypotheses in biodiversity macroevolution modeling. Work on birth-death models, coalescent models, models of continuous and molecular traits along a tree.
2012 - 2013
Master in Applied Mathematics
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Markov processes, stochastic calculus, numerical methods in probability, theoretical statistics.
2010 - 2012
Bachelor in Biology
ENS, Paris
Bachelor in Biology and first year of Master in Ecology, Biodiversity, Evolution. Population dynamics/genetics, genome evolution, modeling approaches in ecology and evolution.
2010 - 2015
\'Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)
, Paris
Successful candidate to the Ecole Normale Supérieure competitive exam.
2008 - 2010
Undergraduate intensive training
Lycée Henri 4, Paris
Life sciences, Geology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics.Research experience
10.2022 - .
Statistician - Statistics applied to clinical trials
Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Grenoble Alpes (CHUGA), Grenoble, France
Statistics and data analysis/vizualization for clinical trials. Teaching statistics in the University Hospital.
12.2021 - .
Freelance data scientist - Applied statistics and teaching
Grenoble, France
Data science for private contractors (including WHO) and teaching statistics.
11.2018 - 11.2021
Postdoc position - Statistics for epidemiology
ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland
In Tanja Stadler's group.Probabilistic modeling in epidemiology to study outbreaks using viral genetic sequences.
09.2014 - 08.2018
PhD thesis - Mathematical modeling in macroevolution
École Normale Supérieure and Collège de France, Paris
Supervised by Hélène Morlon and Amaury Lambert.Probabilistic modeling for the study of life evolution over long time scales.
09.2013 - 03.2014
Internship (placement year) - Fieldwork on herpetofauna
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Nouméa, New Caledonia
Supervised by Hervé Jourdan.Study of the impact of invasive species on the endemic herpetofauna of New-Caledonia.
01.2013 - 08.2013
Master thesis - Mathematical modeling of recombination
École des Ponts ParisTech, Paris
Supervised by Jean-François Delmas.Taking into account recombination into coalescent models.
02.2012 - 08.2012
Internship (M1) - Mathematical modeling
Collège de France, Paris
Supervised by Amaury Lambert and Hélène Morlon.Individual-based modeling of diversification.
Teaching experience
01.2023 - .
~20h
~20h
Statistics for the Health
CHUGA, Grenoble, France
Statistics for clinical trials or epidemiology: basic concepts, linear models (LM), generalized linear models (GLM), mixed models (LMM and GLMM), survival analysis.
05.2022 - .
~80h
~80h
Data Science and data visualisation
ESTIAM, Lyon, France
Data visualisation and data manipulation using R, tidyverse and ggplot2. Summary statistics for central tendency, dispersion, and bivariate data. Discrete and continuous probability distributions. Linear regression.
09.2022 - 10.2022
~20h
~20h
Time Series Analysis
ESTIAM, Lyon, France
Time series analysis using R. Additive and multiplicative models, trend, seasonality, autocorrelation. Auto-regressive and moving average models (ARIMA). Forecasting.
10.2019 - 11.2021
~50h
~50h
Computational Biology
ETH, Zürich and Basel
Introduction to phylogenetic methods: sequence alignment, models of molecular evolution, models of continuous trait evolution, models of diversification, Bayesian framework.
10.2019 - 06.2021
~10h
~10h
Student seminar Computational Biology
ETH, Zürich and Basel
Choice and discussion of relevant papers around the modeling of life evolution.
09.2015 - 06.2018
~180h
~180h
Informatics, Mathematics and Statistics
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Introduction to programming for second-year biology students: tutorials in Python. Mathematics and Statistics for third year biology students: dynamical systems for biology modeling, statistics and hypothesis testing in biology.
09.2015 - 06.2018
~10h
~10h
Short Master courses on macroevolution modeling
École Polytechnique and ENS, Paris
Modeling phenotypic evolution along a phylogenetic tree for the master Maths-SV. A short course on trait evolution modeling for the master EBE.
09.2014 - 06.2015
~60h
~60h
Informatics
Lycée Henri 4, Paris
Informatics basics for first year undergraduate students. Informatics projects for second year undergraduate students.
09.2010 - 06.2011
~10h
~10h
Mathematics
Animaths, Paris
Volunteering to teach mathematics to high school students in disadvantaged areas.Supervision of students
03.2021 - 06.2021
Zoé Vaquette
Research Project
A population genetics guide to better understand SARS-CoV-2 variants
11.2020 - 07.2021
Antoine Zwaans
Master's thesis
Reconstructing cell lineage trees in developmental biology
07.2020 - 08.2020
Remo Bättig
Research Project
Working on an inference method for a logistic birth-death process
02.2020 - 06.2020
Jérémy Andréoletti
Research Project
Total-evidence inference of the cetacean diversity
02.2020 - 05.2020
Antoine Zwaans
Research Project
Inferring the prevalence of outbreaks from viral sequences and occurrencesReviewing activity
Reviewing experience with numerous scientific journals, including: Annals of Applied Statistics, Bioinformatics, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Ecology Letters, Evolution, Nature, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Science, Systematic Biology .Other information
Programming skills
Scientific: Python, R, Scilab, OcamlWeb:PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL
Other: LaTeX, bash
Languages
French: native language.English: good working command.
German: basic knowledge.
Spanish: basic knowledge.
Hobbies
Water: Scuba diving (CMAS Instructor **), free diving, windsurfing.Mountain: Ski touring, rock climbing, mountaineering, trekking.
Photography: Naturalist pictures.