Postdoctoral researcher
About myself
Of French and German nationality, I joined the Global Mammal Assessment lab after five years working at the intersection between the climate and biodiversity fields. While graduating from a master’s degree in Environmental Policy from the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs, I joined the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where I was a member of the COP21 interministerial task force and participated in climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC. I then moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where I worked as an Associate Project Officer for the United Nations Environment Programme’s Wildlife Unit and its Great Ape Survival Partnership. My role entailed project management on a whole range of topics related to wildlife conservation: habitat protection, illegal wildlife trade, green infrastructure, and climate change. Through my work, I came across the silo approach separating climate and biodiversity into separate practice and epistemological communities. I became interested in integrated research methodologies on the interlinkages between the two, which prompted me to develop my PhD project.
About my research
My research employs interdisciplinary methods to advance the understanding of how climate change reshapes tropical forest ecosystems – and how to better detect, interpret and anticipate these shifts in regions with limited instrumental datasets. With a current focus on the Congo Basin, a globally critical area for climate mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity conservation, my work addresses the urgent challenges posed by accelerating global change, and their far-reaching ecological and social consequences. A major obstacle in this region is the scarcity of geoscientific and meteorological data, which limits our ability to analyze the local impacts of global change. My research bridges this gap by generating bottom-up, field-based data that are essential for informing regional conservation and development policies. To achieve this, I combine approaches from conservation biology, climate science, ecological modeling, and long-term fieldwork.
Research interests
- Conservation biology
- Macroecology
- Climate change and biodiversity interlinkages
- Conservation planning
- Socio-ecological systems
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