About me
I am an Associate Professor of the Marine Biology Lab at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) since October 2012. I received my PhD from the ULB in 2004, and then joined the ANDEEP3 expedition to the Southern Ocean onboard the RV Polarstern, before taking the lead of two projects aiming at offering free and open access on Antarctic biodiversity for science, conservation and management purposes (SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF). I recently led a pioneering expedition to the Western Antarctic Peninsula (Belgica121) to test the concept of using a low-environmental impact platform to carry out marine biodiversity census in the Southern Ocean.
My research presently focuses on Polar biodiversity/biogeography, stress eco-physiology and biodiversity informatics. I sit on a number of international scientific and conservation program steering committees, such as the SCAR Expert Group on Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics, Biodiversity.aq or the Antarctic Environments Portal initiative.
Projects
- Belgica121 expedition
- Polar Seastars Project
- Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean
- Microbial Antarctic Research System
- Ecosystem Responses to global change: a multiscale approach in the Southern Ocean
- Aquatic species Register Exchange and Services
- Refugia and Ecosystem Tolerance in the Southern Ocean
- Estimating Tipping points in habitability of ANtarctic benthic ecosystems under GlObal future climate change scenarios
Academic duties
Associate Professor (ULB)
Jury Secretary MA-BIOR (ULB)
Coordinator, MA-BIOR (ULB) “Biodiversity and Conservation” module
Expertise
- Polar Biodiversity and Biogeography
- Numerical ecology
- Ecotoxicology
Teaching
- “Biodiversité et Conservation” (ULB, BIOLF310)
- “Bioéthique et droit de la conservation” (ULB, BIOLF448)
- “Module Biodiversité et Conservation” (ULB, BIOLF449)
- Stage d’écologie marine
- Biogéographie et écologie spatiale
Committees
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS): President of the Scientific Council
- EU-PolarNET 2, Polar Expert Group “Polar Biology, Ecology and Biodiversity”: Chair
- Expert Group on Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics (EG-ABI): Steering Committee Member
- Expert Group on Birds and Marine Mammals (EG-BAMM): Steering Committee Member
- Antarctic Environments Portal (environments.aq): Steering Committee Member
- Biodiversity.aq: Steering Committee Member
- SCAR Biology Symposium 2017: co-Chair of Local Organizing Committee
Publications
Get the full list in DI-fusion
Take a look at my Mendeley, or my Researchgate profiles
Or checkout my Google Scholar profile
Data
Biogeographic data published in GBIF
Taxonomic data published in WoRMS/RAMS
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Contact
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