About me

Originally from a small rural village in the Bresse region of France, a land rich in cultural and culinary heritage. I have always been fascinated by the complexity of biological interactions, from host-parasite coevolution to the evolutionary dynamics of tumors. My academic journey started with a BSC in Organismal Biology, during which I completed internships on animal personality and inducible defenses in freshwater snails. I then pursued an MSC in Ecology, Evolution, and Genomics at the University of Lyon, where I focused on alcohol consumption and cancer evolution in Drosophila melanogaster.

I then pursued a PhD at the University of Montpellier, where I studied the ecology and evolution of host-tumor interactions in hydras. My research explored how tumors act as ecological entities, shaping host life-history traits, immune responses, and their interactions within aquatic ecosystems. During my doctoral research, to respond to this problematic, I developed and implemented a novel study model that combined experimental evolution, ecological modeling, and molecular analyses to understand the adaptive dynamics of host-tumor coevolution.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow in evolutionary parasitology at Tel Aviv University, where I examine how climate change influences host-parasite interactions. My research focuses on understanding how environmental stressors, particularly heatwaves, impact the coevolutionary dynamics between hosts and parasites in freshwater ecosystems. By combining experimental evolution, field data, and molecular approaches, I aim to decipher the adaptive mechanisms that enable resilience or drive population shifts in response to climate fluctuations.