Experience

Since Dec 2007	Post-Doc at the biological station for experimental ecology of the CNRS (USR 2936)
July 2007 - Sept 2007	Visiting researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department Conservation Biology, Leipzig, Germany
March 2007 - Dec 2007	Post-Doc at the Emirates Center of Wildlife Propagation, Missour, Morocco
Sept 2006 - Feb 2007	Post-Doc at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department Conservation Biology, Leipzig, Germany
Sept 2004 - Aug 2006	Temporary Teaching and Assistant Researcher (ATER) in behavioural ecology, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Animale, Université d’Angers, France Research on sexual selection in the Palmate newt, bet-hedging in Rana sp. Teaching ranges from 1rst to 4th year students Created a course in Ethology for 1rst year students in Psychology
Apr - June 2004	Scientific guide. Parc Zooloqique de Clères, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France
Sept 03 - Jan 04	Temporary teacher in high school (biology classes), Region Paris, France
Mar 2002 - Jul 2003	Biological Assistant at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Paris, France Microsatellites markers screening by cross-amplification in Starling and Blue tit.

Apr - June 2001

Scientific guide. Parc Zooloqique de Clères, Muséum National
d’Histoire Naturelle, France

Education

2001 - 2005	Ph. D. with honors in Behavioural Ecology at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France Dissertation title : Sexual selection and honest signalling in the Common peafowl (Pavo cristatus) Supervised by Dr. G. Sorci and Dr. M. Saint Jalme Thesis defence on the 22th June 2005
2000 - 2001	Master’s degree (Grade: B) in Ethology at the Université Paris 13, France
1999 - 2000	Bachelor’s degree (Grade: B) in Ecosystem and Population Biology at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
June 1995	Baccalauréat in Sciences, equivalent to the A level (Grade: A), France

Awards and fellowships

2004	Awarded for a talk at the ASAB Eastern Meeting
	Traveling Fellowship from the Comité National des Sciences Biologiques, Paris
	Traveling Fellowship from the GDR 2155 Ecologie Comportementale, Université de Bourgogne

Communications

Posters

Structural colouration of the eyespots influences male mating success in the peacock (Pavo cristatus), ISBE 2006, July 2006, Tours, France

Maternal differential allocation in peafowl Pavo cristatus, ESEB 2005, August 2005, Krakow, Poland

Multiple sexual advertisements honestly reflect health status in peacocks (Pavo cristatus), ISBE 2004, July 2004, Jyväskylä, Finland

Talks

Cross-amplification of microsatellite markers in the Moorhen and the Coot, UFZ, Germany

Male sexual attractiveness affects the allocation of maternal resources into the eggs in peafowl, ISBE 2006, July 2006, Tours, France

Parental genetic contribution and maternal differential allocation in peafowl Pavo cristatus, Ecology and Behaviour Meeting, March 2005, Chizé, France

Evidence for the hotspot hypothesis in the evolution of peafowl leks: a male removal experiment, Laboratoire d’Ecologie de Paris 6, October 2004, Paris, France

Multiple sexual advertisements honestly reflect health status in peacocks (Pavo cristatus), ASAB Easter Meeting, April 2004, Brighton, UK (rewarded)

Communication sexuelle, signaux multiples et condition dépendance chez le Paon bleu, Meeting of the French Society for the Study of Behaviour (SFECA), April 2003, Tours, France

Sexual selection, multiple traits and health status in the peacock, Laboratoire d’Ecologie de Paris 6, March 2003, Paris, France