My topics of interests in research presently include:
- Local adaptation at small spatial scales
- Adaptive and non-adaptive responses to climate change
- Evolutionary importance of extreme climatic events
- Adaptation to urban habitats
- Sexual selection and evolution of sexual ornaments
- Natural selection and microevolution in natural populations
- Spatio-temporal fluctuations in natural selection
- Evolutionary ecology of bird personality
- Evolutionary constraints and multivariate quantitative genetics
- Ecological genomics
I am part of the group 'Ecologie Evolutive Empirique, Communication & Coopération' in the CEFE.
Below my closest collaborators:
Postdocs based in CEFE
Otto Monge (2023-) - collaboration with Samuel Caro
Collaborator postdocs based elsewhere
Adèle Erlichman - based @MNHN, Paris
Aina Garcia Raventós - based @Uni of Antwerp
Zuzanna Jagiełło - based @Uni of Warsaw
PhD students
Jeanne Chaupitre (2025-2028) - main supervisor : Samuel Caro (CEFE)
Lucie Michel (2024-2027) - cosupervision with Claire Doutrelant (CEFE) & Denis Réale (UQAM)
Hélène Dion-Phénix (2020-2026) - cosupervision with Denis Réale & Steven Kembel (UQAM)
Jérémy Defrance (2023-2026) cosupervision with Arnaud Grégoire & Marcel Lambrechts (CEFE)
Laurine Mathieu (2023-2026) cosupervision with Samuel Caro (CEFE)
Arlette Fauteux (2023-2027) - main supervisor: Denis Réale (UQAM), co-supervision: Claire Doutrelant (CEFE)
Master students
Tiphaine Quanquoit (2025)
Visitor students
Presently none
Main external collaborators
Denis Réale, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Charles Perrier, INRAE, CBGP
Laura Gervais, INRAE, CEFS
Marta Szulkin, University of Warsaw, Poland
Clotilde Biard, Sorbonne Université
Juan Carlos Senar, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
Alexis Chaine, CNRS à Moulis
Adèle Mennerat , University of Bergen, Norway
Loeske Kruuk, Australia National University, Australia
Alexandre Robert, CESCO, MNHN, Paris
Former PhD students
Megan Thompson (2020-2024) - cosupervision with Denis Réale (UQAM)
Drew Sauve (2018-2023) - cosupervision with Vicki Friesen (Queen's University)
Aude Caizergues (2017-2021) - cosupervision with Arnaud Grégoire
Olivier Bastianelli (2016-2019) - cosupervision with Alexandre Robert
Suzanne Bonamour du Tartre (2016-2019) - cosupervision with Céline Teplistky & Luis Miguel Chevin
Gabrielle Dubuc-Messier (2012-2017) - cosupervision with Denis Réale
Pascal Marrot (2012-2016) - cosupervision with Dany Garant
Virginie Demeyrier (2014-2016) - cosupervision with Arnaud Grégoire
Nicolas Rode (2008-2012) - cosupervision with Thomas Lenormand
Coline Arnaud (2009-2012) - cosupervision with Steve Dobson
Mélody Porlier (2009-2012) - cosupervision with Dany Garant
Former MSc students
Jeanne Chaupitre (2025) - cosupervision with Samuel Caro & Laurine Mathieu
Mathis Ballet (2024) - cosupervision with Laura Gervais
Chase Carreau (2022-2023) - cosupervision with Denis Réale
Mathias Gagnon-Barbin (2019-2023) - cosupervision with Denis Réale
Jeremy Defrance (2023) - cosupervision with Arnaud Grégoire & Marcel Lambrechts
Dhanya Bharath (2022) - cosupervision with Megan Thompson
Amélie Hoste (2019-2020) - cosupervision with Samuel Caro & Sylvain Gandon
Hélène Dion-Phénix (2017-2019) - cosupervision with Denis Réale & Steven Kembel (UQAM)
Ana Lozano (2015-2016) - cosupervision with Charles Perrier
Aude Caizergues (2016) – cosupervision with Arnaud Grégoire
Suzanne Bonamour (2016) - cosupervision with Céline Teplitsky, Luis Miguel Chevin & Pierre-André Crochet
Pauline Beis (2012) - cosupervision with Olivier Gimenez
Mandy Thion (2012) - cosupervision with Claire Doutrelant
Charlène Ruppli (2007-2008)
Former postdocs
Laura Gervais (2022-2025)
Tracy Burkhard (2022-2024), Assistant Prof @Lewis & Clark, Portland, OR, USA
Barbara Class (2022), Managing editor @ Peer Community In
Maria Moiron (2018-2022), Research associate @ Bielefeld University, Germany
Charles Perrier (2015-2019), Chargé de recherche INRAE @CBGP, Montpellier
Boris Delahaie (2015-2017), Chargé de recherche IRD, Montpellier
Marta Szulkin (2012-2015), Prof @University of Warsaw, Poland
Jeff Lane (2010-2011), Associate Prof. @University of Saskatchewan
Josh Auld (2008-2009), Associate Provost @West Chester University
Fieldwork collaborators
Here I try to keep an update of fieldworkers that have participated in the blue tit/great tit projects over the years. Please contact me if your name is missing!
Thank you to the city of Montpellier, the University of Montpellier, the OSU-OREME, the MAB Fango Valley, the associations APEEM and GRIPEM.
- Local adaptation at small spatial scales
- Adaptive and non-adaptive responses to climate change
- Evolutionary importance of extreme climatic events
- Adaptation to urban habitats
- Sexual selection and evolution of sexual ornaments
- Natural selection and microevolution in natural populations
- Spatio-temporal fluctuations in natural selection
- Evolutionary ecology of bird personality
- Evolutionary constraints and multivariate quantitative genetics
- Ecological genomics
I am part of the group 'Ecologie Evolutive Empirique, Communication & Coopération' in the CEFE.
Below my closest collaborators:
Postdocs based in CEFE
Otto Monge (2023-) - collaboration with Samuel Caro
Collaborator postdocs based elsewhere
Adèle Erlichman - based @MNHN, Paris
Aina Garcia Raventós - based @Uni of Antwerp
Zuzanna Jagiełło - based @Uni of Warsaw
PhD students
Jeanne Chaupitre (2025-2028) - main supervisor : Samuel Caro (CEFE)
Lucie Michel (2024-2027) - cosupervision with Claire Doutrelant (CEFE) & Denis Réale (UQAM)
Hélène Dion-Phénix (2020-2026) - cosupervision with Denis Réale & Steven Kembel (UQAM)
Jérémy Defrance (2023-2026) cosupervision with Arnaud Grégoire & Marcel Lambrechts (CEFE)
Laurine Mathieu (2023-2026) cosupervision with Samuel Caro (CEFE)
Arlette Fauteux (2023-2027) - main supervisor: Denis Réale (UQAM), co-supervision: Claire Doutrelant (CEFE)
Master students
Tiphaine Quanquoit (2025)
Visitor students
Presently none
Main external collaborators
Denis Réale, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Charles Perrier, INRAE, CBGP
Laura Gervais, INRAE, CEFS
Marta Szulkin, University of Warsaw, Poland
Clotilde Biard, Sorbonne Université
Juan Carlos Senar, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
Alexis Chaine, CNRS à Moulis
Adèle Mennerat , University of Bergen, Norway
Loeske Kruuk, Australia National University, Australia
Alexandre Robert, CESCO, MNHN, Paris
Former PhD students
Megan Thompson (2020-2024) - cosupervision with Denis Réale (UQAM)
Drew Sauve (2018-2023) - cosupervision with Vicki Friesen (Queen's University)
Aude Caizergues (2017-2021) - cosupervision with Arnaud Grégoire
Olivier Bastianelli (2016-2019) - cosupervision with Alexandre Robert
Suzanne Bonamour du Tartre (2016-2019) - cosupervision with Céline Teplistky & Luis Miguel Chevin
Gabrielle Dubuc-Messier (2012-2017) - cosupervision with Denis Réale
Pascal Marrot (2012-2016) - cosupervision with Dany Garant
Virginie Demeyrier (2014-2016) - cosupervision with Arnaud Grégoire
Nicolas Rode (2008-2012) - cosupervision with Thomas Lenormand
Coline Arnaud (2009-2012) - cosupervision with Steve Dobson
Mélody Porlier (2009-2012) - cosupervision with Dany Garant
Former MSc students
Jeanne Chaupitre (2025) - cosupervision with Samuel Caro & Laurine Mathieu
Mathis Ballet (2024) - cosupervision with Laura Gervais
Chase Carreau (2022-2023) - cosupervision with Denis Réale
Mathias Gagnon-Barbin (2019-2023) - cosupervision with Denis Réale
Jeremy Defrance (2023) - cosupervision with Arnaud Grégoire & Marcel Lambrechts
Dhanya Bharath (2022) - cosupervision with Megan Thompson
Amélie Hoste (2019-2020) - cosupervision with Samuel Caro & Sylvain Gandon
Hélène Dion-Phénix (2017-2019) - cosupervision with Denis Réale & Steven Kembel (UQAM)
Ana Lozano (2015-2016) - cosupervision with Charles Perrier
Aude Caizergues (2016) – cosupervision with Arnaud Grégoire
Suzanne Bonamour (2016) - cosupervision with Céline Teplitsky, Luis Miguel Chevin & Pierre-André Crochet
Pauline Beis (2012) - cosupervision with Olivier Gimenez
Mandy Thion (2012) - cosupervision with Claire Doutrelant
Charlène Ruppli (2007-2008)
Former postdocs
Laura Gervais (2022-2025)
Tracy Burkhard (2022-2024), Assistant Prof @Lewis & Clark, Portland, OR, USA
Barbara Class (2022), Managing editor @ Peer Community In
Maria Moiron (2018-2022), Research associate @ Bielefeld University, Germany
Charles Perrier (2015-2019), Chargé de recherche INRAE @CBGP, Montpellier
Boris Delahaie (2015-2017), Chargé de recherche IRD, Montpellier
Marta Szulkin (2012-2015), Prof @University of Warsaw, Poland
Jeff Lane (2010-2011), Associate Prof. @University of Saskatchewan
Josh Auld (2008-2009), Associate Provost @West Chester University
Fieldwork collaborators
Here I try to keep an update of fieldworkers that have participated in the blue tit/great tit projects over the years. Please contact me if your name is missing!
- in 2013: Virginie Journeau, Marc-Olivier Beausoleil, Paul Acker, Claire Loiseau
- in 2014: Christophe de Franceschi, Aude Caizergues, Catherine Geoffroy, Marc-Olivier Beausoleil, Karine Dubois, Coline Cannone, Marie Maistre
- in 2015: Christophe de Franceschi, Simon Coté Bourgoin, Raphaëlle Mercier Gauthier, Stéphan Tillo, Marie Maistre, Simon Miljeteig, Lisa Hagevik, Siri Haugsum
- in 2016: Christophe de Franceschi, Aude Caizergues, Raphaëlle Mercier Gauthier, Stéphan Tillo, Adrien Martineau, Anaïs Prud'Homme, Jessé Roy-Drainville, Aurore Aguetaz, Stéphane Hello, Marie Danielsen
- in 2017: Christophe de Franceschi, Baptiste Pépin, Raphaëlle Mercier Gauthier, Marie Pillods, Gabrielle Dubuc-Messier, Boris Flotterer, Louise Froud.
- in 2018: Christophe de Franceschi (just before becoming officially CNRS-CEFE staff!), Arnaud Borne (notre super BBS), Carole Leray, Gabriel Dansereau, Gabriel Trannoy
- in 2019: Cécile Vansteenberghe, Fiona Cornet, Johanna Theys, Mathias Gagnon-Barbin, Simon Sabrié Perrine Lequitte-Charransol, Claire Dufour.
- in 2020: Achille Sanroma & Catherine Janvier saved the Pirio dataset during the covid lockdown, Stéphan Tillo ( ECOTONE) similarly in Montpellier, and Juliette Linossier (Biophonia) in the Regino valley. THANK YOU to them since we ran a high risk to have a blank year for laying dates!!
- in 2021: Juliette Linossier, Amélie Fargevieille, Aude Caizergues, Pierre Colençon, Thomas Dagonet, Benjamin Dupuis, Fanny Gonguet, Angelika Borowiecka, Marta Szulkin, the GNAUM students (in particular Flora Gouzerh)
- in 2022: Dhanya Bharat, Gabrielle Gingras, François-Xavier Habimana, Amélie Fargevieille, Maël Moulin, Ulysse Lafond, the GNAUM students (in particular Flora Gouzerh)
- in 2023: Victor René de Cotret, Marilou Cournoyer, Emilie Favaro, Arlette Fauteux, Gabrielle Gingras, Adam Gybely, Christian Tchana
- in 2024: Sofia Akkouche, Mathis Ballet, Florent Bastianelli, Louis Bonnard, Camille Bussières, Gab Dubuc Messier, Clovis Goudour, Jérémie Moreau, Roméo Roux-Vaneph, Nicolas de Vos
- in 2025: Félix Benjamin-Norbert, Yann Bellec, Cristina Ríos García, Alice Gardez, Thelma Lescuyer-Tandel, Amélia Olivier, Vassily Reach, Paul St Germain
- Want to be part of our next field team for spring 2026? Contact us!
Thank you to the city of Montpellier, the University of Montpellier, the OSU-OREME, the MAB Fango Valley, the associations APEEM and GRIPEM.
