I am a tenured research scientist (Chargé de recherche) at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), based in the joint research unit AMAP (Botany and Modelling of Plant Architecture and Vegetation, IRD–CIRAD–CNRS–INRAE–University of Montpellier). I hold an HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches), the French qualification to independently supervise doctoral research.
My research focuses on the demography of tropical forests: how tree growth, survival and recruitment respond to climate variability, competition and functional traits, and how these individual-level processes scale up to forest dynamics and ecosystem processes (e.g. carbon balance). I work with long-term forest plot networks across Central Africa (Cameroon), Amazonia, the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and Southeast Asia. I collaborate with international networks such as cafriPlot, ForestGEO, or ForestPlots.net, and link demographic processes to climate change as well as local processes such as soil heterogenity and biotic interactions.
Methodologically, I develop and apply Bayesian multilevel models (Stan, brms) and causal inference frameworks to disentangle drivers of forest change from observational data, with an emphasis on open and reproducible workflows in R.