Academic interests
My research mainly focuses on the evolution of endothermy in Amniota. I use various proxies, such as stable isotopes of oxygen and osteohistology, and phylogenetic comparative methods to investigate the thermophysiology of extinct species. I worked on early synapsids during my MSc thesis and on pseudosuchians during my PhD thesis. More recently, I was investigating the possible acquisition of endothermy at the node Amniota.
I am also heavily invested in the study of osteohistology in a whole and quantify histological variables in the bone of extinct species to inferred various biological features (such as lifestyle and growth rate).
I define myself as a systematist, too. I am working on a few theoretical works in phylogenetic reconstruction and am deeply invested in the French Society of Systematic, of which I am the general secretary.
My postdoc position is part of the ECHO project studying the convergent evolutionary history of cetaceans and ichthyosaurs. I use there my knowledge in osteohistology and phylogenetic comparative methods to study the convergence of various biological features (such as endothermy) between these wonderful groups.
Background
Jan 2022 – Jun 2022: PostDoc position on “The acquisition of flight in theropodian dinosaurs”, at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia.
2018-2021: PhD thesis in Palaeobiology, intitled: “Effects of thermophysiology on the evolution of Pseudosuchia (Archosauria) : contributions of paleohistology and isotopic geochemistry using phylogenetic comparative methods.”, at Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
2016-2018: MSc degree of Sytematics, Evolution and Palaeontology at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France. Thesis: “Where the synapsids primitively endothermic? A palaeohistological approach using phylogenetic eigenvector maps.”