About

I'm interested in mecanisms that shape current biodiversity and its distribution. I'm particularly interested in and sensitive to high-elevation alpine environments.
I am fascinated by the life forms that exist in these extreme environments and by the way life manages to find a way in a seemingly inhospitable environment.
Recently, I have become more and more interested in how ecology and genomics can help us preserve biodiversity and serve as a tool for environnemental struggles.

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Ongoing research

I am in my third (and sadly last) year of my PhD.

My current research focuses on the phylogeography of high-elevation alpine plants. We aim to revisit the nunatak hypothesis originally proposed by Marie Brockmann-Jerosch in the 1920s. By focusing on specialist species inhabiting siliceous cliffs of the nival belt in the Alps, we test the idea that these taxa survived the Last Glacial Maximum by persisting on ice-free nunataks within the alpine range.
Using an integrated approach that combines population genomics, ecological modeling, and paleogeomorphology, we seek to reconstruct the late-Quaternary history of high-altitude cushion plants and better understand their persistence in extreme alpine environments.