Tropical forest bioeconomics
Biography
I’m a PhD student in forest bioeconomics modelling 🌳.
My research focuses on the forest sector and its interactions with forest dynamics in the context of French Guiana. I am also particulary interested in the forest ecosystem services and their evaluation.
Interests
- Statistics/ Econometrics
- Forest ecology
- (Bio)economics
- Ecosystem services evaluation
- Forestry
Education
PhD in tropical forest bioeconomics, Ongoing
Univ. Guyane
MSc/ Engineer in forest engineering, 2020
AgroParisTech
MSc in life science, 2020
Ecole Normale Supérieure
MSc in statistical ecology, 2020
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
MSc in tropical ecology, 2019
AgroParisTech, Univ. Montpellier
MSc in economy, 2018
Univ. Lorraine
Skills
Statistics - Econometrics
Frequentist & bayesian approches for discrete | hierarchical | mixted models
Programming & package developer
R (advanced) | C++ | Python
Cartography
QGis - GRASS - SAGA
Open science
FAIR principles | Open-code
Project design & management
Research partnership | feasibility study
Survey & interviews
Design - analyses (AI approaches) - report
Professional experiences
PhD student: Sustainability of the french guiana forest sector, a spatialized bioeconomic approach
INRAe, UMR BETA & UMR ECOFOG
Fields of research:
- Forest ecosystem services estimation - Carbon storage/ Functional diversity/ Roundwood/ Hunting ;
- Modelling forest sector - Agent Based modelling/ preferences survey/ elicitation interviews ;
- Forest growth model calibration - TROLL model with Gaussian processes.
Research assistant (IngĂ©nieur d’Ă©tude) in econometrics: Spatial analysis of wood industrial clusters in the Vosges and their impact on the local forestry
Ecosystem services evaluation, Cox model, forest sector, bayesian modelling.
Research assistant (IngĂ©nieur d’Ă©tude): Building a trans-atlantic research partnership - Univ. Georgia & Rayonier
International research partnership, project design, forestry, wood quality.
MSc research project: Demographic processes and spatial distribution of functional traits under environmental constraints in tropical forests, 6 months
Functional traits, demography, tropical forest, spatial analysis, bayesian modelling.
MSc research project: Bayesian modeling of Douglas fir quality to predict the resource of extractable chemical compounds, 6 months
Wood quality, sylviculture, bayesian modelling, knottiness, hierarchical modelling, tree architecture, growth model.
MSc research project: Spatial analysis of industrial clusters in the French forestry and wood sector and their impact on the probability of cutting, 3 months
Ecosystem services evaluation, spatial modelling, forest sector, bayesian modelling.
MSc research project: Protein-ligand interactions between Glutathione-S-transferases from Trametes versicolor and French Guiana wood extractives in relation to natural durability, 5 months
Microbiology, biochemistry, wood chemistry, non-linear model.
Engineer internship: Technology transfert study of a high-throughput Characterization method of tropical wood extractives, 10 months
Feasability study, Prospective market analysis, chemical ecology, wood chemistry.
Projects
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Glutathione Transferases: Surrogate Targets for Discovering Biologically Active Compounds
My “work in progress” website about my PhD (link).
Adaptations of the forestry and wood industry of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Park in a context of global changes.
Forest hunting pressure interaction with forest logging over the north of French Guiana: a GPS tracking survey coupled with a spatialized bioeconomic modelling.
Softwares
A branching and nodosity model linked to the Simcop model
Teaching
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1 semester project for Msc program in tropical forestry about the regeneration conditions of Dicorynia guianensis, Tachigali melinonii and Symphonia globulifera.
1 semester project for Msc program in tropical forestry about the coupling of rcontroll and LoggingLab.
6 Months internship Ambroise Koffi Yeboua (M2 Ecology Univ. Montpellier).
6 Months internship Cyrus Matboo (Engineer IMT Nord Europe) in collaboration with OFB french guiana.
FTH 2021: analysis of the upstream forestry sector, sociological approach
2 weeks project for Msc program in tropical forestry on the upstream forestry sector using a novel sociological approach. (link).
FTH 2022 Forest regeneration: Study of the ecological and anthropic factors of the distribution of regeneration on plot 16 of Paracou
2 weeks project for M2 tropical forestry engineer on the main driver of forest regeneration of Dicorynia guianensis,Tachigali melinonii & Symphonia globulifera. (link).
MSc course: Estimate, origins & theory on tropical tree diversity
Courses in french (3h) for M2 tropical forestry engineer about tropical tree diversity with a theoretical and methodological scope. (link).
6 Months internship Martin Estivals (Engineer Polytech Clermont) in collaboration with ONF french guiana (link).
Publications
(2023).
Hydro-Edaphic Gradient Shapes the Inter and Intra Genus of Local Tree Community Assembly in Neotropical Forest.
In prep.
(2023).
LoggingLab: An R Package to Simulate Forest Logging.
In prep.
(2023).
Rcontroll: An R Interface for the Individual-Based Forest Dynamics Simulator TROLL.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
(2020).
Glutathione Transferases: Surrogate Targets for Discovering Biologically Active Compounds.
Journal of Natural Products.
(2020).
A Reverse Chemical Ecology Approach to Explore Wood Natural Durability.
Microbial Biotechnology.
