EDUCATION

• 2008-2009
  

  Licence 1 in Modern and Classical Litterature, Université Lyon 2 (Lyon, France)
  

• 2005-2008
  

  Ph.D. in Biology, École Normale Supérieure (Lyon, France)
  

• 2004-2005
  

  M.S. in Biology, École Normale Supérieure (Lyon, France)
  

• Summer 2004
  

  School "Mediterranean Ecology", Laboratoire Arago (Banyuls-sur-Mer, France)
  

• 2002-2004
  

  B.S. in Biology, École Normale Supérieure (Lyon, France)
  

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 2025-
  

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Okinawa, Japan)
  Group Leader
  Group name: Tinkering with chitin-based materials

• 2019-2025
  

  National University of Singapore (Singapore, Singapore)
  Research fellow - Antónia Monteiro lab
  Evolution of structural coloration in butterflies.

• 2015-2018
  

  Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (Lyon, France)
  Research fellow - Abderrahman Khila lab
  Evolutionary genetics of bristle development in water striders.

• 2014-2015
  

  University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
  Research fellow - Bénédicte Sanson lab
  Oriented cell division and epithelium morphogenesis in the Drosophila embryo.

• 2010-2014
  

  University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA)
  Research fellow - Sean Carroll lab
  Evolutionary genetics of wing pigmentation in Diptera.

• 2005-2008
  

  Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes (Lyon, France)
  PhD student - Charlie Scutt lab
  Evolutionary genetics of carpel development.

• 2004 (5 months)
  

  Evolutionary Biology Centre (Uppsala, Sweden)
  Intern - Martin Lascoux lab
  Recent degeneration of an old duplicated flowering time gene in Brassica nigra.

• 2003 (2 months)
  

  Institute of Ecology and Evolution (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  Intern - Laurent Keller lab
  Nestmate recognition and genetic distance in the ant Formica paralugubris.

GRANTS & AWARDS

• 2023
  

  Ministry of Education, Singapore, Tier 2 Research Grant (1.2 M SGD) "The genetic basis for differences in cuticle polarization and regionalization in butterfly wing scales."

• 2006
  

  Best Poster Award - 15^th Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB)

• 2006
  

  Travel grant - 14O^th extraordinary session of the Société Botanique de France (Grasse)

• 2005-2008
  

  PhD grant from the French ministry of education and research

REVIEW ACTIVITY

• Advanced Photonics

• Biology Letters

• BMC Biology

• BMC Evolutionary Biology

• BMC Genomics

• BMC Plant Biology

• Chemosphere

• Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

• Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D

• eLife

• European Journal of Entomology

• Evolution Letters

• Frontiers in Genetics

• Frontiers in Plant Science

• Gene

• Genes

• Genome Biology and Evolution

• Insect Molecular Biology

• Integrative and Comparative Biology

• International Journal of Molecular Sciences

• Journal of Ethology

• Journal of Genetics & Genomics

• Journal of Imaging

• Journal of Molecular Evolution

• Journal of Phycology

• Molecular Biology and Evolution

• Molecular Biology Reports

• PCI Evolutionary Biology

• Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

• Plant Methods

• Plants

• Plant Science

• PNAS

• Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B

• Scientific Reports

• The Plant Journal

• Zoological Research

OUTREACH & TEACHING

• Outreach
  

  2018. Déclics - Dialogues entre Chercheurs et Lycéens

  2018. Fête de la Science "Ces petites bêtes qui nous aident à comprendre les gènes"

  2018. "Dans la blouse d’un chercheur, ou d’une chercheuse" – elementary school pupils

  2017. Introduction to the world of biological research for middle school students

  2016. Fête de la Science "Punaises d'eau: modèles de recherche au laboratoire"

  2009: Seminar "On the Origin of Flowering Plants" at Lyon Botanic Garden

  2009. Exhibition "Évolution...Révolution" - 200^th birthday of Darwin

  2007. Colloquium "Autour de Linné" - 300^th birthday of Linnaeus

  
  
• Teaching
  

  2024. LSM4256-Evolution of Development (L4, National University of Singapore)

  2023. Embryogenèse précoce (L1 class, Université Laval)

  2022. LSM4256-Evolution of Development (L4, National University of Singapore)

  2021. Introduction to Phylogenetic trees (Master class, Hokkaido University)

  2021. ENT812-Insect Molecular Biology (L1, Michigan State University)

  2016. Practical courses in Genetics (L1, University Lyon 1)

  2007. Integrative Plant Biology (Master class, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

  
  
• Mentoring
  

  2025. Mentoring of Shuhua Wang (undergraduate)

  2024. Mentoring of Judith Han Jia En (undergraduate)

  2022. Mentoring of Yuqi Weng (undergraduate)

  2021. Mentoring of Yi Yang Bei (undergraduate)

  2018. Mentoring of Alice Roussel (Master 1)

  2018. Mentoring of Laura Volff and Louis Rolland (Classes Préparatoires)

  2013. Mentoring of Hung Tae Kim (undergraduate)

  2011-2013. Mentoring of Korynne DeCloux (undergraduate)

  2007. Mentoring of Nicolas Rode (Master 2)

RESPONSABILITIES

• 2025
  

  Grant Evaluation Panel - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)

• 2024
  

  Grant Evaluation Panel - European Science Foundation (section: interdisciplinary)

• 2023-2025
  

  Guest Editor - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution "Biological and physical basis of the development of integument and associated structures"

• 2023-
  

  Editorial Board - Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

• 2022-2024
  

  Guest Editor - Evolution & Development "Old hypotheses and theories at the heart of current evo-devo research"

• 2022-2025
  

  Review Editor - Frontiers in Genetics

• 2021-
  

  Preprint Editorial team - Proceedings of the Royal Society B (section Developmental Biology)

• 2021-2025
  

  Grant manager NRF "From genes to products: study and application of butterfly structural colors for biomimetic manufacture" (SGD$4.9M - 4 PIs, 5 Postdocs)

• 2021
  

  Organizer of the symposium "Evolution of structural coloration in animals", 2^ndAsiaEvo Conference (Tokyo, Japan)

COMMUNICATIONS

• 2025
  

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Okinawa, Japan) "Insect cuticle and associated structures: evolution, development, and bioinspiration." - invited seminar -

• 2024
  

  Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (Tours, France) "Insect cuticle and associated structures: evolution, development, and bioinspiration." - invited seminar -

• 2023
  

  Département de Biologie (Québec, Canada) "Developmental and evolutionary photonics." - invited seminar -

• 2023
  

  Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (Sevilla, Spain) "Developmental and evolutionary photonics." - invited seminar -

• 2022
  

  Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution (TiBE) "The Biology of Colour" (Vila do Conde, Portugal) "Evolution of butterfly wing photonic nanostructures." - poster -

• 2022
  

  Tokyo Metropolitan University, Department of Biological Sciences (host: Dr. Yuichi Fukutomi) "How the semi-aquatic bugs invaded the water surface: an evo-devo approach." - invited seminar -

• 2019
  

  National University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences (host: Pr. Antónia Monteiro) "Evolution and development of coloration in drosophilids." - invited seminar -

• 2018
  

  7^th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED, Galway, Ireland) "Evolutionary genetics of bristle development in semi-aquatic insects." - poster -

• 2015
  

  University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Symposium (Cambridge, UK) "Orientation of Cell Division during Drosophila embryogenesis." - talk -

• 2013
  

  University of Oxford, Department of Zoology (host: Pr. Peter Holland) "Recruitment of a partial gene network underlies morphological innovation in Samoaia flies." - invited seminar -

• 2013
  

  EMBO|EMBL Symposium "New model systems for linking evolution and ecology" (Heidelberg, Germany) "Wing pigmentation pattern novelty in Samoaia flies: development, evolution, and functional genomics." - poster -

• 2012
  

  Conference Jacques Monod "Emergence and evolution of developmental patterns" (Roscoff, France) "To understand wing pattern novelty in flies or the Holy enGrailed Quest." - poster -

• 2008
  

  Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE, Barcelona, Spain) "Evolution of ARF gene family in the land plants." - poster -

• 2007
  

  11^th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB, Uppsala, Sweden) "ARF gene family in carpel evolution." - poster -

• 2006
  

  1^st Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED, Prague, Czech Republic) "ARF gene family in carpel evolution." - talk -

• 2006
  

  15^th Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB, Lyon, France) "ARF gene family in carpel evolution." - poster -