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Apolline LouvetJunior researcher, BioSP Unit, INRAE Avignonapolline.louvet[at]inrae.fr |
I am a junior researcher ("chargée de recherche") in the "Biostatistiques et Processus Spatiaux" (BioSP) unit of INRAE, and I am part of the Plant Health and Environment (SPE) department. I develop and study stochastic population dynamics and population genetics models for populations out of equilibrium, such as expanding populations or populations affected by frequent extinction events. This covers a wide variety of models, such as space-continuous measure-valued population genetics processes, variants of the Wright-Fisher model with a seed bank component, or branching processes. While these models are interesting in their own right from a mathematical viewpoint, they also present applications in ecology, as "proofs of concept" that some biological phenomenon observed in real life can be reproduced only using stochasticity in reproduction, or as bases to build estimators and perform statistical inference on real data. Therefore, my research interests also include the application of the models I study to questions arising in plant ecology and urban ecology.
I did my PhD under the supervision of Amandine Véber (mathematician at CNRS) and Nathalie Machon (ecologist at the French National Museum of Natural History), at the CMAP (Ecole Polytechnique) and MAP5 (Université Paris Cité) laboratories. From September 2022 to November 2023, I did a first postdoc at the University of Bath, under the supervision of Matt Roberts. I was then a postdoc in the group of Aurélien Tellier at TU Munich (Professorship for Population Genetics, School of Life Sciences) until August 2024.