Welcome!

 Back to childhood, I have always been interested in the biological world, particularly in the faunal one. In France, my generation grew up with few TV channels and no internet. This generation discovered the natural world mostly through the Cousteau documentaries, "Ushuaïa" by Nicolat Hulot and "Thalassa" (I can still recall the soundtrack from those Friday nights). In this context grew my passion for animals and my dream to travel for work (for a long time I wanted to be a vet in remote regions of the world). 

My interest for the sea and its creatures came a bit later (as a teenager), when I had the chance to visit a small experimental marine lab abroad. I have to say that I literally fall in love with the idea to become a marine biologist, and more specifically one studying the marine tropical lagoon environments...

The long study path had to start...

Studying environmental ecology, agriculture and agronomy (in order to enroll in an Engineering School), I started to have experiences in the world of "Marine Sciences". The first real "science experience" happened in the field of paleoclimatology in relation to the Tropics. 

Then, I specialized in marine biological sciences and had my first period at sea... in the Arctic! (Life is full of opportunities and sometimes you have to switch from your original plans ;))

I had already been introduced earlier to the world of plankton (working with cladocerans culture in an aquaculture lab), but I never sampled plankton in the field from before.

It has been such an incredible experience that I decided to continue studying arctic zooplankton.

After more than 4 years in the field of Arctic ecology, I have been working for 3 years at the interface between science and politics for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) which is currently building up in Europe. Within this job, one of the main goal has been to develop indicators of good environmental status. I also had to follow and set up monitoring programms. I have been a active participant of working groups, notably within the OSPAR Sea Convention. European member states have to somewhat standardize, in a similar way as much as possible, the management of the marine ecosystem. To be part of these working groups has been a strong motivating factor along this job.

Unfortunalty, the french government made cuts into the funding for the "pelagic habitats", and I could not continue my mission and contribute,  as I should, to the 6 years-period and this only 3 months before handling the report..... That's anoter story to tell...

I got a position in French Polynesia where I left for a year working on the notion of "carrying capacity" applied to the pearl culturing. The goal of this research is to develop adapted tools for the sustainable management of bivalve aquaculture in the tropics and sub-tropics.

I decided to come back to Europe for several personal reasons, but this was not without passing by a country I always dreamed to go: New-Zealand. Willing to contribute to projects and learning things related to sustainable development (since many years, I started to be really engaged for sustainable development from a personal point of view), and not only travelling, I volunteered for 2 months in several farms following permaculture principles in New Zealand.

Back to Europe, I fugured out that the jobs offer in marine sciences and management seemed in shorter supply than before... I have been thus doing several things at the same time while also applying for positions. I got the chance to enlarge my experience in environmental outreach being a coastal park ranger in the Natural regional park of Camargue, for the whole 2019 summer season. 

I am generally interested in environmental sciences and management, enjoying the pluri-tasking required in environmental/biodiversity conservation and management projects.

You can find more info on my professionally related activities on this web site.

Have a good reading!