Forschungsinteressen
Main focus
My research interests focus on phenotypic
flexibility between and within individuals and avian responses to natural
temperature fluctuation. I am particularly interested in how these responses
occur through time and biological levels (from behaviour to cells) and how they
can potentially contribute to fitness outcomes.
In my current research, I focus on
glucocorticoids (“stress” hormones) because they mediate many behavioural and
physiological responses to environmental changes. Notably, I use a reaction
norm approach to investigate between and within individual variation in
glucocorticoid levels across a natural gradient of air temperature, and how
these variations relate with 1) reproductive success and 2) telomere length and
dynamics, markers of phenotypic condition. Lastly, I also investigate whether
variation in glucocorticoid levels causally affect parental behaviour,
thermoregulation and cellular metabolism.
I carry my research in a wild population of
great tits (Parus major) exposed to
natural weather variation and monitored since 2015 by the Hau research group.
Vita
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2023 Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Biological
Intelligence, Group Evolutionary Physiology, Seewiesen, Germany
2018 – 2022 PhD in ecophysiology,
Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
2015 – 2016 MSc
in ecophysiology and ethology, University of Strasbourg, France
2012 – 2014 MSc
in neurosciences and behavioural sciences,
University of Caen, France
2009 – 2012 BSc in biology, biochemistry and
physiology, University of Orléans, France