SUMMARY


Originally from New Caledonia, my research broadly focuses on measuring how the world is changing to understand where and how we should conserve species. I use a mixture of approaches in machine learning and AI to answer questions in relation to conservation decision-making, connectivity, migration and population ecology.
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BRIEF CV:

2023 – 2027 Kew Future Leader Fellow, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, UK
I am working with the Millenium Seed Bank Partnership to develop ex situ conservation priorities. I am predicting seed storage behaviour, extracting seed traits, identifying collection gaps and using cost-effectiveness to prioritise species and areas for collection and restoration.
2021 – 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, UK
For this postdoc, I was working on protected area placement using reinforcement learning tools. 
2019 – 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour, Germany
For this postdoc, I was working with the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck using Neural Nets to detect vocalisations from animal-bourne recorders, particularly on meerkats. The project focuses on understanding how communication shapes movement decisions.
2017 – 2019 Postoctoral Researcher, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Switzerland
For this postdoc, I was working at the  Swiss ornithological institute idoing work mapping migration and behaviour using multi-sensor gelocation methods, monitoring group dynamics during migration and developping R packages for tracking behaviour during the migratory cycle.
2016 – 2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
Central place forager model for ecosystem service pollination estimates (CRESENT)
Predicting agricultural food webs under different crop rotations (PREAR)
Modelling occurrence of freshwater species with connectivity (Hydroscape)
Optimising sustainable agricultural intensification under different land uses (ASSIST) 

EDUCATION

2012 – 2015 PhD Candidate, Centre for Excellence in Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, Australia 
Thesis Title: Threats to migratory birds, and actions for their conservation
My thesis aimed to tackle fundamental gaps in our knowledge of how to conserve migratory species; by (i) understanding how threatening processes at different migratory stages can influence population growth rate, (ii) increasing our knowledge of habitat availability and protection during the non-breeding season, (iii) developing optimal management strategies at the local scale, and finally by (iv) investigating how conservation action can be prioritized at the international level when migratory connectivity is uncertain.​
2010 – 2011 MRes Computational Biology (Merit), University of York, UK
Internal research project: Investigating the effects of environmental perturbations on the diversity of multi-species populations 
External research placement: Combining cellular and Bayesian belief models: an integrated approach to managing the Staghorn coral in the face of climate change 
 
2006 – 2010 BSc Environmental Science (Ecology), University of Aberdeen, UK
Honours Project: Stochastic modelling of the establishment phase of a species invasion under coloured environmental noise