Main Focus
My research interests focus on phenotypic flexibility between and within individuals and avian responses to natural temperature fluctuation. I am particularly interested in how these responses occur through time and biological levels (from behaviour to cells) and how they can potentially contribute to fitness outcomes.
In my current research, I focus on
glucocorticoids (“stress” hormones) because they mediate many behavioural and
physiological responses to environmental changes. Notably, I use a reaction
norm approach to investigate between and within individual variation in
glucocorticoid levels across a natural gradient of air temperature, and how
these variations relate with 1) reproductive success and 2) telomere length and
dynamics, markers of phenotypic condition. Lastly, I also investigate whether
variation in glucocorticoid levels causally affect parental behaviour,
thermoregulation and cellular metabolism.
I carry my research in a wild population of
great tits (Parus major) exposed to
natural weather variation and monitored since 2015 by the Hau research group.
Curriculum Vitae
2018 – 2022 PhD in ecophysiology,
Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
2015 – 2016 MSc
in ecophysiology and ethology, University of Strasbourg, France
2012 – 2014 MSc
in neurosciences and behavioural sciences,
University of Caen, France
2009 – 2012 BSc in biology, biochemistry and
physiology, University of Orléans, France