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Senior Researcher CNRS (Directrice de recherches 2ème classe, DR2 HDR) Laboratoire d'écogéochimie des environnements benthiques (LECOB/CNRS-Sorbonne Université UMR 8222) Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls
Expertise
Trained as a fluid mechanic, after completing a Master's degree and an experimental thesis on gravity waves in the marine environment, I made my first thematic conversion within my discipline of geophysics, focusing my post-doctoral research on the dynamics of non-cohesive sediments in the oscillating bottom boundary layer in wave-current interaction. This thematic shift was accompanied by a methodological change with the use of numerical simulation. When I was recruited by the CNRS, I made a disciplinary shift by focusing my research on marine ecology and, more specifically, on the influence of hydrodynamics on the functioning and structuring of benthic communities. My main area of research focuses on the role of connectivity in conservation ecology by assessing the resilience of benthic invertebrate meta-communities (polychaetes, gorgonians, corals) in the context of global change and conservation measures. This approach now serves as the basis for analysing the persistence of species at the regional level that are subject to natural or anthropogenic disturbances, using dynamic models of metapopulations and metacommunities. I transfer the results of this research outside the academic world in order to provide a scientific basis for evaluating the effectiveness of protective measures (Marine Protected Areas) in the context of maritime spatial planning. In particular, I supervised the thesis of Sylvain Blouet, now Deputy Director of the Agathoise MPA, on this subject. Since 2017, I have embarked on a new line of research aimed at transposing concepts of forest ecology to marine communities on the seabed, and in particular, the canopy effect resulting from changes in marine currents in marine animal forests.
On-going and recently finished research projects
EU-MISSION project OCEAN CITIZEN (2022-2026) : A mulitidisciplinary approach integrating science and society in Marine Forests regeneration for ocean management and protection
ANR project POPNCO (2021-2025) : Multi-scale analysis of past and future temporal variability of marine POPulation CONnectivity Indo-French CEFIPRA project (2022-2025): Vulnerability of the Andaman and Nicobar islands
Région Occitanie project ICONE II (2021-2024) : The role of ports in the connectivity of the Gulf of Lion
Agence de l'Eau project ICONE (2018-2021) : Impact of articificial reefs additional CONEctivity on hard-bottom natural biodiversity
Interreg Marittimo project IMPACT(2017-2020): Impact of ports on nearby MPAs
Liteau project Roc Connect (2012-2016): Connectivity of hard-bottom substrates in the Gulf of Lion
