Research

My main topics of research are plankton ecology, biogeography and genomics in the context of climate change. 

Plankton communities are composed of a myriad of microscopic organisms with various sizes ranging from viruses (0-0.2 μm), bacteria (0.2-3 μm), single celled protists (1-200 μm) to small metazoans (20-2000 μm). They thrive in all earth oceans and climates and are passively transported by currents.

I am interested in understanding acclimation and adaptation capabilities of plankton in the context of the seascape and of climate change using data analysis (omics) as well as mechanistic and statistical models. The seascape includes the multiple processes at play in the ocean notably physico-chemical processes such as currents, temperature, light and nutrients supplies and biological processes such as neutral genetic drift, natural selection and biotic interactions.