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2001 French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, FIF-ENGREF Nancy.
2001 Master in Ecology and Evolutionary biology, University Montpellier II.
2005 PhD. Thesis in Ecology, University Montpellier II, Late- successional species dy- namics and landscape transformation, Supervised by T. Curt & J. Lepart. Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier
2015 HDR. Habilitation Thesis in Ecology, University Joseph Fourier Grenoble, Trees interactions and forest communities dynamics along abiotic gardients

2005 Post-doc, David Coomes Cambridge University, UK, Waitutu Temperate Forest Simulation Model development (SORTIE-NZ). A collaborative project with Landcare Research (NZ) - Rob Allen and Institut of Ecosytem Studies (USA) - Charles Canham.
2006 - 2012 Research Scientist, Irstea Grenoble, Unit Mountain Ecosystems.
2012 - 2014 Marie-Curie Fellow, Macquarie University Sydney - Irstea Grenoble, with Mark Westoby.
Since 2015 member of the board of the French Ecological Society, sfe

PhD

Théophile Moreal de Brevans, cosupervised with L. Hertzog, C. Collet - on going. Monitoring of French forests regeneration. Université de Lorraine.
Anne Baranger, cosupervised with T. Cordonnier - 2025.Vulnerability of forest to climate change in AURA, Université Grenoble Alpes.
Natheo Beauchamp, cosupervised with B. Courbaud - 2025. Managing European forests for a higher resilience to climate change. Université Grenoble Alpes.
Lukas Heiland, cosupervised with L. Hülsmann - 2023. Regeneration of European forests in the face of climate change. University Regensburg, Germany.
Thomas Bourdier cosupervised with B. Courbaud and T. Cordonnier - 2016. Size inequality and forest productivity. Université Grenoble Alpes.
Emmanuel Defossez (main supervisor) - 2012. Climate change and tree recruitment in mountain forest. Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I.
Ghislain Vieilledent cosupervised with B. Courbaud - 2009. Structuring uncertainty and variability of ecological processes in forest dynamics models – Application to Silver Fir and Norway Spruce coexistence. Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I.

Post-Doc

Flore Viard-Cretat, 2010-2012. Climate, functional composition and diversity drive forest productivity in the French Alps.
Katalin Csillery, 2011-2012. Hierarchical Bayesian models to estimate size, competition and climate effect on tree mortality.
Arnaud Guyennon, 2017-2019. Stochastic patch occupancy models for European forests.
Valentin Journé, 2020-2022. Forest fecundity in the face of climate change (PI Prof J. Clark avec B. Courbaud).
Laura Touzot, 2021 -2023. How competition and temporal variability drive forests response to climate change in Europe and North America.
Julien Barrere, 2021-2023. Climate change and forest disturbance impacts on European forests