Mentoring has always had an important place in my life,
from high school to research group leader.
For my team, I aim to perform innovative and high-quality research in a mutually supportive and attractive working environment, where students and collaborators blossom into satisfied and recognized researchers.
As a PI, I am committed to invest my deepest energy into the supervision of young researchers from my own team and visitors from my research network. An important proportion of my former mentees were able to pursue a career in academia.
I am always welcoming motivated students and researchers; if you are interested, don't hesitate to get in touch.
Supervisor of:
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8 postdocs
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6 PhD theses
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4 on-going PhD theses
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43 MSc theses
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9 research internships
Bérengère Bastogne
PhD student (2021-)
The role of intraspecific variation in modulating the effects of environmental change drivers on ecological systems (mycorrhizal fungi)
Victor Brans
PhD student (2022-)
Impacts and interactions of multiple environmental change drivers in nature: a metapopulation viability analysis of Boloria eunomia in Belgian Ardenne
Tessa de Bruin
PhD student (2018-)
The role of intraspecific variation in modulating the effects of environmental change drivers on ecological systems (ciliated protists)
Marie-Charlotte Gielen
PhD student (2018-)
Mitigation of the impacts of cattle boreholes on wildlife biodiversity in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana
Florent Manzi
Postdoc (2022-)
Habitat choice: evolution and eco-evolutionary consequences
Dr. Julie Choutt
PhD student (2007-2011)
The butterfly and the wasp: host-parasitoid relationship between Boloria eunomia and Cotesia eunomiae
Dr. Quentin Dubois
PhD student (2012-2018)
The conservation of the Cranberry Fritillary Boloria aquilonaris across space and over time: study of a boreo-montane butterfly from distribution to demography
Dr. Staffan Jacob
Postdoc (2016-2018)
Role of nonrandom dispersal in spatial heterogeneity of phenotypes and species response to environmental change
Estelle Laurent
PhD student (2015-2022)
Dispersal heterogeneity: causes and consequences in a unicellular ciliate organism in microcosms
Dr. Christophe Lebigre
Postdoc (2011-2016)
Ageing subpopulations and ecological successions: a new perspective on spatial genetics?
Dr. Delphine Legrand
Postdoc (2014-2015)
How do organisms adapt to changes in environmental conditions: an experimental evolution and genomic approach
Dr. Kate Mitchell
Postdoc (2011-2012)
Phenotypic plasticity in Tetrahymena thermophila ciliates
Now postdoc @ Macquarie University (Australia)
Dr. Thibaut Morel Journel
Postdoc (2016-2018)
The role of landscape topology on metapopulation dynamics under environmental change: from in silico to in vivo approaches
Dr. Frank Pennekamp
PhD student (2009-2014)
Swimming with ciliates – Dispersal and movement ecology of T. thermophila
Dr. Viktoriia Radchuk
PhD student (2008-2012) - Postdoc (2012-2013)
Dealing with biological complexity in Population Viability Analysis:
lessons from two endangered butterfly species
Dr. Nils Svendsen
PhD student (2016-2024)
Relationships among functional traits in experimental microcosms of the protist Tetrahymena thermophila
Virginie Thuillier
PhD student (2011-2017)
Phenotypic plasticity and evolution of life history traits of Tetrahymena thermophila in microcosms
Dr. Camille Turlure
PhD student (2007-2009) - Postdoc (2011-2015)
Habitat from a butterfly’s point of view: how specialist butterflies map onto ecological resources
Now Center of Excellence Manager - Medical Communication CoE @Akkodis