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CURRENT POSITIONS
2020-current : Geospatial Epidemiologist, Translational Data Scientist & Communications Officer at Geomatys
Montpellier, France
2020-current : Epidemiology & Data Analytics Consultation Coordinator and Founding Member at The GRAPH Network
Geneva, Switzerland (remote)
2019-2023 : Adjunct Research Scientist
Translational Research on HIV & Infectious Diseases Laboratory
(UMR TransVIHMI: IRD/INSERM/UM)
Montpellier, France
PRIOR POSITIONS & TRAINING
Senior Epidemiologist
2021-2023 : Infectious Disease Epidemiology Consultant for WHO-AFRO
Brazzaville, Congo (remote)
Post-doctoral Researcher
2018-2019 : Transversal PSIP: Climate Change & Emerging Infections (UMR TransVIHMI) w/ Jean-François Étard, Benjamin Roche, Laëtitia Atlani-Duault
IRD, Montpellier, France
2015-2017: Infectious Disease and Vectors Laboratory: Ecology, Genetics, Evolution and Control (UMR MIVEGEC) w/ Benjamin Roche
IRD, Montpellier, France
2015: Institute of Ecology and Evolution w/Heinz Richner
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2014: Center for Biology and Management of Populations (UMR CBGP) w/Nathalie Charbonnel
INRA, Montpellier, France
2012-2014: Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (UMR CEFE) w/Sebastien Lion
CNRS, Montpellier, France
PhD, Biology
August 2012: University of Virginia, Department of Biology, Charlottesville, VA
Dissertation: “Determinants of pathogen distribution in natural populations”
Advisor: Janis Antonovics
MS, Biology
May 2007: University of Virginia, Department of Biology, Charlottesville, VA
Thesis: “The Evolution of Suppressed Recombination in the Sex Chromosomes of Microbotryum”
Advisors: Michael Hood & Janis Antonovics
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