Presently Senior researcher at INRAE
- Heading a team dedicated to theoretical ecology;
- Themes ranging from ecosystem functioning, ecological theories to ecological modeling…
Ex Head of the Ecology Department of IFP (French Institute of Pondicherry, South India)
- Around 30 members in the department;
- Themes ranging from palaeo-ecology and palynology, to forestry and botany, modelling and software conception, and social and human sciences….
Research Projects in progress or finishing (managing and/or participating)
- INC (ANR) = Incendies et biodiversité des écosystèmes en Nouvelle Calédonie. C. Hély, CEREGE.
- BIODIVAGRIM (ANR) = Conservation de la biodiversité dans les agro-écosystèmes, une modélisation spatialement explicite des paysages. V. Bretagnolle, CEBC.
- STAMP (ANR) = Modélisation dynamique de paysage avec des primitives spatiales, temporelles et multi échelles. D. Lo Seen, TETIS.
- BVH (AECID and World Bank) = Caractérisation de la ressource en eau en Haïti, C. Gaucherel, IFP.
- HATARI – Tellus-Rift CNRS call, C. Tiberi UM Montpellier.
- SESASA – European Leap-Agri call, C. Fürst UML Germany.
- SERVICESCALES – INRA MP ECOSERV
- Others ...
Figures. Masai people pictured in Northern Tanzania (photo C. Gaucherel CC BY-SA 4.0).
+ several postdoctorates and researchers supervised …
In addition, I welcome suggestions for projects from students who wish to carry out PhD or post-doctoral programs in the areas of theoretical ecology, ecosystems functioning, landscape modelling and spatial ecology.