PEOPLE
PEOPLE
POSTDOCS
PhD
2021-2025 Gabrielle Deschamp - Towards integrated models of plant species distributions and communities. Funded by the Ministry of Research. Co-sup. Clovis Galiez (LJK-Grenoble).
2023-2026 Matthias Rohr - Mechanisms of assembly of meta-communities across scales. Co-sup: Tamara Münkemüller. Funded by the ANR project PEG2
2023-2026 Marianne Tzivanopoulos - Understanding and predicting invertebrate diversity in Europe - model developpement and scenarios. Co-sup: Tamara Münkemüller and Laure Gallien. Funded by the NaturaConnect project
2023-2026 Romain Goury - Effects of glacial retreat and global change on plant and soil biodiversity. Co-sup: Tamara Münkemüller. Funded by the Biodiversa project Prioritice
2024-2027 Eléonore Chenevoix - Measuring, monitoring and conservation of terrestrial biodiversity on a national scale: a multi-taxonomic and fonctionnal approach. Co-sup: Cyrille Violle (CEFE-Montpellier). Funded by IPEF.
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
2010-onward
Julien
Renaud – GIS engineer - Database manager
(CNRS IE)
2014-onward Maya Gueguen - Computer Scientist - Development of FATE-H, data analyses, statistical developments (UGA IE)
2015-onward Amélie Saillard - Technical coordinator of ORCHAMP - field assistant (UGA IE)
2023-2025 Hélène Blancheteau - Development and maintenance of biomod2 (CNRS IE)
2025-2027 Giovanni Poggiato - Orchamp field manager and EBV producer (CNRS IR)
MASTER
2025 Maxime Hoareau - A Bayesian framework to spatially constrain habitat suitability maps from species distribution models. ENS Lyon
2025 Lise Layotte - Uncertainty and comparative analyses of multi-species connectivity. Master Montpellier GAIA. Co-sup. Marie-Caroline Prima
HONOUR/BACHELOR
2025 Mathieu Absolut De La Gastine - Do spatial plant associations change with climate warming. ENS Lyon. Co-sup. Tamara Munkemuller & Matthias Rohr.
ALUMNI
Postdocs
2006-2008
Sophie Rickebusch – "Impacts of
climate and land use change on tree dynamics in France – a
spatially and temporally explicit approach" funded by ANR
QDiv
2007 Patrick
Saccone– "Tree recruitement variation along a
complex environmental gradient" funded by FP5 MACIS project
2008-2009 Francesco
de Bello – "Spatial patterns of functional
diversity in the French Alps" funded by ANR DIVERSITALP
2008-2009 Linda
Beaumont – "Where will species go? Incorporating new
advances in climate modelling into projections of species
distributions"
2010-2010 Cécile
Albert – "Functional traits, demography and
environmental variations" funded by ANR 3Worlds
2011-2013 Cécile Albert - "Vegetation dynamics and ecosystem services provision in a fragmented landscape in response to global change" funded by FP7 Marie Curie Out-going fellowship (‘DIVERSE’)
2013 Laure Gallien - How invasives get high - Understanding and predicting the geographical spread of invasive plants in alpine environments funded by ERC TEEMBIO2013-2015
Rafaël
Wüest - "Coexistence and the Evolution of Climate
Niches and Functional Traits", funded by the SNF
(Switzerland) and the ERC TEEMBIO (2014-2015)
2017 Bradley Z. Carlson - Application of high‐resolution imagery to investigate the impacts of global change on the Mont Blanc massif. Co-sup: Anne Delestrated. Funded by the European project TourScience.
2013-2017 Marta Carboni - "Invasive Alien Species: towards Improved MOdeling tools through Virtual ecology" funded by FP7 Marie Curie fellowship (‘IASIMOV’) and the Biodiversa WhoIsNext project.
2015-2018 Matthew Talluto - "Bayesian modeling of community distributions" funded by the ANR Odyssee.
2018 Vicente Garcia-Navas - Diversity dynamics in French land bird communities: quantifying the multiple dimensions of biodiversity from a multifaceted approach. Funded by MOPGA (short stay)
2015-2019 Laura J. Pollock - "Conserving the Legacy of Evolution into the Future" funded by the ERC TEEMBIO and H2020 Marie Curie Fellowship (CLEF)
2018-2019 Gisele Winck - Consequences of environmental changes on mutualistic interactions. Funded by the CNPq (Brazil).
2017-2020
Marta de Barba - "Functional connectivity and ecological
sustainability of European ecological networks: a case study
with the brown bear" funded by Biodiversa BearConnect
project.
2017-2021
Philipp Brun - Analyzing relationships and scale effects in
diversity facets of the alpine flora. Based at WSL Zurich
with Niklaus Zimmermann. Funded by the ANR-SNF OriginAlps
project.
2019-2021 Christophe
Botella - Graph embeddings to compare ecological
networks. Funded by the ANR EcoNet project. In collaboration
with Vincent Miele & Stéphane Dray (LBBE, Lyon) and
Catherine Matias (Sorbonne Univ., Paris). Funded by the
ANR EcoNet.
2020-2022 Gemma
Rutten - Spatial biogeography of microbes and their
interactions across the French Alps. Funded by the FutureWeb
project.
2021-2022
Camille Martinez-Almoyna - Plant functional effects on
the spatial structure of invertebrate communities
2021-2023 Marc Ohlmann (deceased on 17 June 2023) - Nativating the methods to study ecological networks
2023 Giovanni
Poggiato - Integrating trophic networks in
biodiversity modelling. Funded by the NaturaConnect project
2023 Camille
Desjonquères - Understanding acoustic
landscape along elevational gradients. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) project SOUNDSCAPE
2022-2023 Rémi Patin - Biodiversity
modelling using biomod2 and FATE-HD. Funded by the FeedBacks project
2023-2024 Yuqing Hu - Deep learning approaches for predictive ecology. Funded by the FeedBacks project
2019-2024 Nicolas Le Guillarme -
Developping new AI tools for biodiversity data integration and modelling. Funded through the MIAI Grenoble project
PhDs
2006-2009
Cécile
Albert - “Plant functional variations and
convergences along environmental gradients in the Alps –
predictions and prospectives in a global change context “.
Univ. J. Fourier, Grenoble, France. Co-sup: Sandra Lavorel.
Funded by a Polytechnique bursary
2007-2010 Greg
O. Hughes - “Advancing Habitat Suitability
Modelling Approaches For Use In Climate Change Impact
Assessment and Species Conservation". Univ. of Cape Town,
South Africa. Co-sup: Guy Midgley (SANBI) & Bruce
Hewitson (UCT)
2008-2011
Morgane
Barbet-Massin - Predict the potential
impacts of climate change on the distribution and diversity
of European birds. Université Pierre and Marie Curie,
France. Sup. Fred Jiguet
2008-2012 Isabelle
Boulangeat - Vulnerability ofmountainous ecosystems to
global change - a spatially explicit modeling approach and
conservation implications, Univ. of Grenoble, France. Funded
by the FP6 Ecochange project.
2009-2013 Laure Gallien - How invasives get high - Understanding and predicting the geographical spread of invasive plants in alpine environments. Univ. of Grenoble, France. Co-sup: Sébastien Lavergne. Funded by the Ministery of Research.
2010-2013 Florian Boucher - Evolutionary response and species range change of Alpine plants in a climate change context. Univ. of Grenoble, France. Co-sup: Sébastien Lavergne. Funded by the Ministery of Research (Polytechnique).
2010-2014 Laure
Zupan - Suitability of European protected areas in
respect to evolutionary history and ecosystem functions.
Univ. of Grenoble, France. Co-sup: Mar Cabeza (Univ.
Helsinki). Funded by the ANR SCION project.
2012-2015 Loïc
Chalmandrier - From communities to multi-trophic
metacommunities: disentangling the features of diversity
patterns. Co-sup: Sébastien Lavergne and Tamara Münkemüller.
Funded by the ENS Paris.
2011-2015 Laüra Meller - Strategies to make spatial conservation prioritization less susceptible to uncertainty. Univ. of Helsinki, Finland. Co-sup: Mar Cabeza (Helsinki, Finland).
2012-2015 Florent
Mazel
- Understanding and protecting vertebrate diversity
worldwide. Co-sup: Sébastien Lavergne. Funded by the ENS
Lyon.
2013-2016 Bradley Z. Carlson - Species and Community Distribution Modelling in high elevation landscapes: application of high‐resolution imagery. Co-sup: Philippe Choler. Funded by the Ministery of Research
2014-2017 Ceres Barros - Study of ecosystem stability across spatial and trophic scales. Co-Sup: Tamara Münkemüller. Funded by the ERC TEEMBIO project.
2015-2018 João Braga - Studying the spatial diversity of ecological networks and their conservation implications. Co-sup: Stéphane Dray. Funded by the ARC Environnement 2014.
2016-2019 Marc Ohlmann - Toward a spatial theory of interaction networks in Ecology: concepts, methods and applications. Funded by the Ministry of Research
2017-2020 Sara Si-Moussi - Contribution of data mining to ecological communities modelling. co-sup: Mickael Hedde (Eco & Sol, INRA), Esther Galbrun (INRIA). Funded by the INRA-INRIA fellowship.
2017-2021 Camille
Martinez-Almoyna - Plant-soil
associations along environmental gradients:
From trophic groups to multi-functionality. Co-sup: Tamara
Münkemüller. Funded by the Ministry of Research
2017-2021 Yohann
Chauvier - Developing multi-facetted approaches to
plant conservation planning in the European Alps. Co-sup:
Niklaus Zimmermann (WSL, Zurich). Funded by the ANR-SNF
OriginAlps project.
2018-2022 Irene Calderón-Sanou - Towards a better understanding of soil multi- trophic biodiversity through the use of environmental DNA metabarcoding. Co-sup: Tamara Münkemüller. Funded by the ANR GlobNets
2019-2022 Billur Bektaş - Transient dynamics of Alpine grasslands – linking biodiversity and ecosystem functions in a warming world. Co-sup: Tamara Münkemüller. Funded by the Ministry of Research
2019-2022 Louise O'Connor - Predicting and anticipating global change effects on large-scale ecological networks. Co-sup: Laura J. Pollock (McGill Univ., Canada).
2019-2022 Emmanuel Faure - Rewilding of the Alps - a modeling and socio-economic perspective. Sup: Sandra Lavorel (LECA, Grenoble) and Harold Levrel (CIRED, Paris). Funded by the IPEF.
2019-2023 Giovanni Poggiato - Integrating ecological dependencies in biodiversity models. Co-sup: Julyan Arbel (INRIA, Grenoble). Funded by the ANR Gambas project
2019-2023 Daria Bystrova - Dimension reduction in Joint Species Distribution Models and Density estimation. Co-sup: Julyan Arbel (INRIA, Grenoble). Funded by the Ministry of Research
Research Assistants
2007-2009 Claire
Lagaye – GIS engineer - Database manager
2007-2010 Bruno
Lafourcade – Computer Scientist - Work on BIOMOD
2010-2011 Samuel Pironon – Research Assistant - Impacts of climate change on diseases
2012-2013 Mathieu Faure - Functional trait measurements
jun2013-july2013 Amélie Saillard - Functional trait measurements
2010-2014 Damien Georges – Computer Scientist - Development of FATE-H / BIOMOVE / BIOMOD
2016-2017 Damien Georges – Computer Scientist - Development of BIOMOD
2010-2016 Marti Boleda – Molecular ecologist - PCRs
2017-2018 Baptiste Lemaire - Field assistant on observatory networks (Orchamp, GlacioCLIM). Funded by the CDP Trajectories.
2017-2020 Louise
Boulangeat - Field assistant, trait sampling and
lab work. Member of the Origin-Alps project.
2018-2023 Clément
Lionnet - Bioinformatics - Environmental DNA analyses.
Member of the GlobNet project.
2022-2024 Choé Mahieu - Commmunication officer and project manager of Orchamp
Master
2006 Cécile
Albert - “Dynamique de colonisation des ligneux
dans les prairies subalpines : application à Larix
decidua“. Ecole polytechnique - INAPG, Paris.
Co-sup: Sandra Lavorel
2006-2007 Darren
Houniet – "Past, current and potential future
distributions of the Dwarf Chameleons (Bradypodion)
of South Africa." Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa. Co-sup:
Kristal Tolley & Les Hunderhill
2007 Bruno Lafourcade - “Accounting for uncertainties in climate change projections“. Univ. of Toulouse, France
2008
Isabelle Boulangeat - Plant
community structure of the French Alps - specialist versus
generalist species, Univ. of Grenoble, France
2009 Laure
Gallien - Relationships between exogenous and
indigenous species at various spatial scales, Univ. of
Grenoble, France.
2009 Clément
Quétel - Sampling of the Alpine Flora, Univ. of
Lille, France.
2010
Laure Zupan - Reserve selection
in the French Alps in a climate and land use change context.
Univ. of Grenoble, France
2010
Florian Boucher - Evolutionary
history of alpine flora - niche, traits and species
diversification. A case study with the Androsace genus.
Ecole polytechnique - INAPG, Paris. Co-sup: Sébastien
Lavergne.
2010
Samuel Pironon - Impacts of
climate change on keystone species in France. Univ. of Metz.
2011
Pauline Philippe - Modeling
vegetation dynamics in the Alps. ENS - Lyon / Univ. of
Grenoble. Co-sup: I. Boulangeat.
2011
Loic
Chalmandrier - Inferring mechanisms of community
assembly through community phylogenetics. ENS - INAPG,
Paris. Co-sup: T. Münkemüller & S. Lavergne.
2011 Florent
Mazel - Integrating community phylogenetics
into species distribution models. ENS - Lyon. Co-sup: Laure
Gallien
2012 Florent
Mazel - Species, phylogenetic and functional
area relationships. ENS - Lyon.
2013 Sarah
Duchazaubeneix - Environmental drivers of multiple
facets of European biodiversity. Co-Sup: Laure Zupan.
2013 Bradley Z. Carlson - Dynamic habitat filtering of species distribution models in the Chamonix Valley, France. Univ. Grenoble. Co-Sup: Phillipe Choler.
2013 Alexandre Génin - Functional and phylogenetic turnover across space and millenia. ENS-Lyon. Co-Sup: Loïc Chalmandrier.
2014 Solène Knipping - Applying multi-facetted diversity-area relationships to understand plant invasion in islands. ENS-Lyon. Co-Sup: Florent Mazel & Hannah Marx.
2015 João
Braga - Integrating phylogeny and space in the
study of traits - environment relationships. Univ. of
Grenoble. Co-sup. Stéphane
Dray (LBEE, Lyon)
2015 Solène
Knipping - How does productivity relates to
functional and phylogenetic diversity over space? ENS-Lyon.
2016 Marc
Olhmann - Déterminants de la structure spatiale
des réseaux de co-occurrence plantes-champignons-bactéries
dans les prairies subalpines. Ecole Polytechnique - Master
EBE - Paris.
2017 Paul
Dufour - Contexte biogeo-climatique de l'évolution
de la migration chez les oiseaux. Univ. of Montpellier.
Co-sup. Sébastien Lavergne.
2017 Lily Dunyach
- Conservation of phylogenetic and functional diversity of
the Alps. Univ. Grenoble-Alpes. Co.sup. Laura J. Pollock.
2017 Camille
Martinez-Almoyna - Effects of multi-trophic
assemblages on ecosystem multi-functionality. Univ. of
Montpellier. Co-sup. Tamara Münkemüller.
2024 Maxime Hoareau - Impacts of trophic interactions on species distributions. ENS Lyon
2024 Lucia Oliveira - Landscape connectivity for invertebratres in France. Master Rennes. Co-sup. Marie-Caroline Prima
2024 Matteo Schweizer - Structure and phenology of vertebrate assemblages in the French Alps. Co-sup. Amélie Saillard & Vincent Miele
2004 Honour's
student: Adeline Fayolle -
“Variation of morphological and reproductive traits of
Protea species along bioclimatic gradients”,
ENSA-Montpellier, France
2007 Honour's
student: Alex Soudant -
“Traits de graines et variation inter- et intra spécifique
le long d’un gradient environnemental complexe”, Univ. of
Bordeaux, France, Co-sup: Cécile Albert
2007 Honour's
student: Emmanuel Dortel -
“Modélisation de la réponse des populations d'insectes aux
changements globaux : comparaison des effets d'une
augmentation de la température et d'une modification d'usage
des terres sur les coléoptères scarabéides coprophages”,
Univ. of Montpellier, France, Co-sup: Pierre Jay-Robert
(CEFE, Montpellier)
2008 Bachelor's
student: Florent Mazel -
Spatial variation of alpha and beta functional diversity
along an altitudinal gradient, ENS Lyon, France
2008
Honour's student: Florian Boucher
- Réponse de la végétation aux changements climatiques et
aux changements d’utilisation des terres dans la vallée de
la Guisane (05): paramétrage et test de sensibilité d’un
modèlede paysage (LAMOS). Ecole Polytechnique, promotion
X2005. Co-sup: Cécile Albert.
2009 Bachelor's
student: Coline Byczek -
Eléments de validation de l'utilisation de la technique de
remote sensing pour l'évaluation de la biodiversité végétale
des prairies alpines, ENS Lyon, France
2009
Honour's student: Steve Prate
- Multiple realized niche of invasive species worldwide.
Entente Franco-Québécoise
2010
Honour's student: Pierre Alain
Sachiet - A comprehensive test of the MAXENT model
(Shipley et al. 2001 Science) on the Alpine Flora. Ecole
Polytechnique. Co-sup. Cécile Albert.
2012 Honour’s student: Kira Buelhoff - A comprehensive functional trais database for European vertebrates. Erasmus - Rurh-Universität Bochum (Germany).
2013 Honour’s student: Maya Guéguen - Impacts of climat and land use change on multiple facets of Alpine biodiversity - INSA Lyon. Co-Sup: Damien Georges
2014 Bachelor's student: Laura Vecera - Climatic niche evolution of Phyteuma. Co-Sup: Cristina Roquet & Sébastien Lavergne.
2015 Honour’s student: Marc Olhmann - Construction et analyse de réseaux de co occurrence partielle à partir de données de metabarcoding collectées le long d'un gradient environnemental à Valloire (Alpes françaises). Ecole Polytechnique. Co-sup: Loïc Chalmandrier & Sebastien Lavergne
2015-2016 Bachelor's student: Marvin Plein - Simulating vegetation dynamics in the Mont Blanc area. Univ of Freiburg (Germany). VISITING RESEARCHERS
Mr. Olivier
Broennimann (PhD) (Univ. of Lausanne, Switzerland).
Oct 2004- Janv 2005.
Mr. Darren
Houniet (Msc) (South African Biodiversity
Institute, Cape Town, South Africa) Sep2006-Oct2006
Ms. Sara
Vallecillo (PhD) (Centre Tecnològic Forestal de
Catalunya, Solsona, Spain) Nov2006-Dec2006
Dr. Nuria
Roura-Pascual (Univ. of Girona, Spain)
Jan2007-Feb2007
Dr. Linda
Beaumont (Macquarie University NSW, Australia)
March 2007
Mr. Donald
Midoko Iponga (PhD) (Centre for Invasion Biology,
Stellenbosch, South Africa) Sept2007-Oct2007
Ms. Nuria
Gasso (PhD) (CSIC, Sevilla, Spain) Sept2007-Oct2007
/ March 2008
Dr. Colin
Yates (CSIRO, Camberra, Australia) Feb 2008
Dr. Danni
Guo (SANBI, Cape Town, South Africa) Feb 2008
Dr. Lydia
Ries (Univ. Santa Barbara, USA) Feb 2008
Ms. Laetitia
Buisson (Univ. of Toulouse) Dec 2008
Dr. Christine
Meynard (Univ. of Montpellier) Dec 2008
Ms. Marta
Carboni (Univ. of Roma) Jan-March 2009 / Jan -
March 2010
Ms. Maria
Trivino (CSIC, Madrid) Oct - Dec 2009 / Jan - June
2010
Dr. Dominique
Gravel (Univ. of Rimousky, Canada) March-April 2011
Dr. Belinda
Gallardo (Univ. of Cambridge, UK) July 2011
Mr. Cory
Merow (Univ. Connecticut, US) Oct 2011
Ms. Heini
Kujala (Univ. of Helsinki, Finland) Oct 2011
Dr. Mihai
Puscas (Cluj, Romania) March-June 2012
Ms. Mireia
Valle Tobar (Sukarrieta, Spain) March 2012
Dr. Dominique
Gravel (Univ. of Rimousky, Canada) Juin 2012
Mr. Rafael
Wüest (WSL, Zurich) Sept 2012
Dr. Marc
Cadotte (Univ. Toronto, Canada) Oct 2012
Dr. Jonathan
T. Davies (McGill Univ, Canada) Oct 2012
Dr. Cécile
Albert (McGill Univ, Canada) Oct 2012
Dr. Niklaus
Zimmermann (WSL, Zurich) Dec 2011
Ms. Isabel
Cabra Rivas (Univ. Alcala, Spain). Nov 2012 -
Feb2013
Dr. David
Bourke (Univ. Dublin, Ireland) Jan 2013
Dr. Niklaus Zimmermann (WSL, Zurich) Feb 2013
Dr. Niklaus Zimmermann (WSL, Zurich) March 2013
Dr. Pedro Peres-Neto (Univ. Quebec, Montréal, Canada) March 2013
Dr. Cécile
Albert (Univ. McGill, Canada) April 2013
Dr. Frédéric
Guillaume (ETH-Zurich), May 2013
Dr. Jonathan
T. Davies (McGill Univ, Canada) June 2013
Dr. Heini Kujala (Melbourne University, Australia) July 2013
Dr. Cérès Barros (Aberdeen Univ.) October 2013
Dr. Justin Travis (Aberdeen Univ.) October 2013
Ms. Julia Laube (Univ. of München) November-December 2013
Dr. David Bourke (Univ. Dublin, Ireland) March-April 2014
Dr. Jake Alexander (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland) March 2014
Dr. Niklaus
Zimmermann (WSL, Zurich) May 2014
Dr. Erin Cameron
(Univ. Helsinky), May 2014
Dr. Olivier Cotto
(Univ. of Zurich), June 2014
Dr. Dominique
Gravel (Univ. Rimousky, Canada) June 2014
Dr. Isabelle
Boulangeat (Univ. Rimousky, Canada) June 2014
Dr. Beth Crase (National
University of Singapore) July 2014
Dr. Brendan Wintle (Univ. of Melbourne) Nov 2014
Dr. Nathan
Kraft (Univ. of California). June 2015.
Dr. Damaris
Zurell (WSL, Zurich) June 2015.
Dr. Ariana
Kubartova (Univ. Upsalla) June 2015
Dr. Nathalie Jane
Brisco (Univ. of Melbourne) July 2015
Dr. Reid Tingley
(Univ. of Melbourne) July 2015
Ms. Freya Thomas (Univ. of Melbourne) July-August 2015
Dr. Luca Santini (Iniv. of Roma) April - August 2016
Dr. Karel Mokany (Univ. of Melbourne) May - July 2016
Ms. Idaline Laigle (Univ. of Rimousky) Nov 2016
Dr. Ulrich Brose (iDIV, Germany) May 2017
Dr. Santiago Solliveres (Univ of Bern) May 2017
M. Christophe Boletta (Univ. of Montpellier) June 2017
Dr. Ceres Barros (Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria), Dec 2017
Dr. Pablo Lucas (Univ. of Krakova) Nov 2017 - March 2018
Prof. James Clark (Dukes Univ) Dec 2018
Dr. Nicolas Loiseau (Univ. Montpellier II, MARBEC-CEFE) March 2019
Dr. Isaac Paterson (Helsinki) April 2019
Mr. Ian Ondo (Kew Garden) April 2019
Dr. Samuel Pironon (Kew Garden) April 2019
Dr. Darren Southwell (QAECO, Melbourne) June 2019
Dr. Isaac Peterson (FMNH, Helsinki) June 2019
Pr. Mariana Vale (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) March 2021-March 2022
Pr. Marcio Argollo de Menezes (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) March 2021-March 2022
Simone Giachello (Universite de Milano, Italy) Oct 2022-Jan 2023
Chiara Dragonetti (Sapienza University, Roma, Italy) Jan 2023-May 2023