Since 2024

Directrice de recherche Classe Exceptionnelle (DRCE), CNRS, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Montpellier.

2023-2025: President of the Society for the Study of Evolution

2025: Appointed Knight of the National Order of Merit

2024: Silver Medal of the CNRS

2018 – 2024

Directrice de recherche 1ère classe (DR1), CNRS, CEFE, Montpellier.(Equivalent Prof.)

2023: Grand Prix of the Société Française d’Ecologie et Evolution (SFE²)

2014 – 2018

Directrice de recherche 2ème classe (DR2), CNRS, CEFE, Montpellier.(Senior tenured position)

2016-2017: 1 year sabbatical in Prof Denis Reale’s group, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

2006 – 2014

Chargée de recherche 1ère classe (CR1), CNRS, CEFE, Montpellier.

2011: Bronze Medal CNRS

2012-2013: 6 month sabbatical in Prof Tim Clutton-Brock’s group, University of Cambridge (Wolfson Research Fellow) 

2012: HDR – French Habilitation to supervise PhDs

2006

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Postdoctoral Researcher, Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford

2004 – 2005

Marie Curie Intra-European Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Zoology, Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford

2000 – 2003

PhD student on  ” Environmental heterogeneity in the Mediterranean region and the evolution of fitness: extra-pair paternity and heritability of morphometric traits in the Blue tit”, Montpellier

1999 – 2000

M.Sc: Biology of Evolution & Ecology, University of Montpellier

1997 – 1999

​Design Engineer in Life Sciences, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie de Montpellier