JTA’s CV

📃 Publications

Refer to the complete publication list here.

☀️ Commitments to open science

Explore my commitments here.

🏋️ Research experience

See all ongoing and past projects here.

🤿 Occupational diving experience

  • PADI Dive Master at Dive Center Manly, Sydney (Nov 2024–Feb 2025).
    Guided many shore dives, scuba diving refresher courses and snorkelling tours for tourists and local divers.

  • Dive Research Coordinator at Macquarie University (2025).
    Led two research field trips (Sydney and Ningaloo, Australia), with responsibility for dive safety protocols, logistics, and team coordination during dives and snorkel operations.

🛠️ Skills

🐟 Data collection

  • Fish behaviour in the wild: Designed and implemented experiments to observe fish behaviour in the field using scuba diving, snorkelling and live or remote video recordings. Analysed videos manually or using Boris software.
  • Marine fieldwork organisation: Planned and led two field trips involving scuba diving and snorkelling in Australia. Responsibilities included securing funding, obtaining permits and ethics approval, risk assessments, team training, and field logistics.
  • Fish behaviour in the lab: Designed and set up laboratory experiments to video-record fish behaviour (such as tool use, personality, mate choice). Analysed videos manually or with automatic position tracking on R.
  • Community science: Developed a campaign to collect data and raise awareness about fish tool use, which included creating a questionnaire, coding a website in CSS and HTML, developing an email sending strategy and creating social media posts.
  • Snail behaviour and morphology in the lab: Reared Physa acuta snails with or without odours of predators in the lab and assessed their anti-predator defences (morphology and behaviour). Analysed their morphology using ImageJ or the Momocs R package.
  • Microsatellite sequencing: Performed DNA extraction, PCR and peak assignment on Geneious.
  • RAD sequencing: Performed DNA extraction and library preparation for Illumina sequencing.

🔎 Data analysis

I believe data analysis is my favourite part of the research process. I completed all statistical analyses in my projects and got involved in two projects to help with data analysis (ending up in two publications: Clark-Shen et al. 2024 and Loéva et al. 2025). I have also taught data analysis.

  • Data wrangling using R and the tidyverse R package
  • Linear models in R including generalised and mixed models
  • Complex random effect structure modelling of linear models using frequentist and Bayesian approaches in R to model behavioural individuality and plasticity
  • Principal Component Analysis in R
  • Survival analysis in R
  • Quantitative genetics
  • Parentage analysis with the software Colony
  • Genetic structure analysis with the software Genetix

💻 Data management

  • Version control using git
  • Code and data sharing: Prepared datasets, data dictionaries, annotated codes and licences following FAIR principles. Shared them on GitHub, Zenodo or OSF.
  • Reproducible workflow: Created clear folder structures within R projects, used renv for dependency management, automated data processing and figure generation, annotated code.

🤗️ Result Sharing and Outreach

  • Conference organisation: Chair of the SORTEE conference committee in 2025, overseeing the successful organisation of their virtual conference on open science. Served as the program manager of the SORTEE conference committee in 2023 and 2024.

  • Social media engagement: Developed a social media campaign for the fish tool use project. Produced engaging posts and reels for Instagram using Adobe Premiere Pro.

  • Press release writing: Wrote two press releases and followed a 2-day science communitication online workshop.

  • Popular science communication: Interviewed for a Canadian radio. Reached the semi-finals of the 2023 FameLab competition, which included a one-day online training in science communication.

  • Popular science writing: Authored two popular science articles in French about my PhD project (article 1 and article 2).

  • Academic communication:

    • Collaborative paper writing: Managed collaborative writing with multiple authors.
    • Document writing and editing: Wrote manuscripts on LateX, Word or Google Docs.
    • Oral and poster presentation at scientific conferences. Used powerpoint (oral presentation) or Adobe Illustrator (poster). See all my conference contributions here.
    • Scientific figure creation: I believe figure creation is the my second favourite part of the research process, after data analysis! I use Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape and the ggplot2 R package.

Other academic skills

  • Teaching. See full list of teaching activities here.

  • Student supervision.

    • Supervised 2 graduate and 2 undergraduate students in media and communication, 1 undergraduate in education for the fish tool use project: Wayne Inchiparambil, Faria Awais, Anietta Susane Samuel, Simran Wadhwa, Nicole Romanos.
    • Co-supervised 5 graduate and 1 undergraduate biology students: Cyndi-Lee Harrison-Burgess,Loéva Martin-Podevin, Alice Fontaine, Anaïs Arzel, Estelle Champion, Delia Ben Sussan.
    • Attended a half-day workshop ‘Giving effective feedback’ co-organised by Hugh Kearns and Macquarie University.
    • I would like to receive more supervision training in my next position.

  • Science editing: Performed final editing and reference review of manuscripts using Word and LaTeX for Peer Community Journal in 2023 and 2024.

  • Grant writing: See the list of awarded grants here.

  • Peer-review. Full peer-review record available on my ORCID profile.

  • Literature search and review, reference management using Zotero: Wrote a literature review on my PhD project and postdoc project.

  • Project management: Managed a scientific project from designing and securing funding to sharing the results.

Other personal and interpersonal skills

  • Teamwork and collaboration: Worked both in person and remotely with international teams.
  • Team management. Coordinated team of 3-4 people for lab experiments and fieldwork.
  • Fluent in English and French
  • International relations
  • Self-motivation and management
  • Adaptation to change and flexibility: Completed four research internships, one PhD and one postdoc, all of which in different labs and 4 different countries
  • Problem solving and creative thinking: Academic research requires daily problem-solving and the ability to address unexpected challenges.
  • Attention to detail: Research work demands meticulous attention to detail to minimise errors and ensure accurate findings

🎓 Academic positions and Education

Year Position or degree Institution
2024–ongoing Honorary postdoctoral researcher Macquarie University
2022–2024 Postdoctoral researcher Macquarie University
2017–2020 PhD in Evolutionary Ecology Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University
2016–2017 Master’s Degree in Ecology, Biodiversity and Evolution University of Pierre et Marie Curie
2015–2016 Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees in Biosciences École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
2015–2016 Preparatory Classes for Grandes Écoles Lycée Saint-Louis

👩‍🏫 Teaching

Teaching positions

School Year Qualification Institution
2024 Lead sessional teacher Macquarie University
2024 Sessional teacher Macquarie University
2017–2020 Teaching position (Activité Complémentaire d’Enseignement) Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University

Taught hours

Year Topic Institution Students Hours Content
2024 Lead tutor Macquarie University First-year bachelor 27 Supported students and unit coordinator, managed online learning platform
2024 Animal Behaviour Macquarie University First-year bachelor 14 In-person lab pracs
2024 Biodiversity and Conservation fieldtrip Macquarie University Third-year bachelor 24 Assisted students with fieldwork data collection and analysis in R
2024 Life diversity Macquarie University Second-year bachelor 9 In-person pracs on data collection and analysis using R
2024 Biological data analysis Macquarie University Second-year bachelor 24 Online pracs on various data analysis using R
2018-2019 Fieldtrip Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University TBD TBD Assisted students with fieldwork data collection
2018-2019 Phenotypic plasticity Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University Third-year bachelor TBD In-person pracs on paper analysis and oral presentation
2018-2019 Life morphological diversity Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University Second-year bachelor TBD In-person pracs
2018-2019 Life diversity Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University First-year bachelor TBD In-person pracs
2018-2019 Digital literacy Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University First-year bachelor TBD In-person pracs

💬 Talks

Invited talks

  • 2025, Institute for Applied Ecology seminar, University of Canberra (Australia): ‘Fish Using Tools: Uncovering Factors Driving Tool Use Evolution’
  • 2025, MECADEV seminar, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (France): ‘Des poissons qui utilisent des outils : Comprendre les determinants de l’évolution de la capacité à utiliser des outils’
  • 2024, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre seminar, University of New South Wales (Australia): ‘Transgenerational plasticity as a mechanism to adapt to a variable environment?’
  • 2022, School of Natural Sciences seminar, Macquarie University (Australia): ‘Transgenerational plasticity as a mechanism to adapt to a variable environment?’
  • 2022, Evolution / Behavior & Evolution seminar, online for Bielefeld University (Germany): ‘Characterisation of transgenerational plasticity: the case of predator-induced defences of the gastropod Physa acuta’

Oral conference contributions

  • ASFB 2024, annual conference of the Australian Society for Fish Biology, Newcastle (Australia): ‘Fish using tools: Factors driving tool use evolution’
  • ISBE 2024, biennial meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Melbourne (Australia): ‘Fish using tools: Factors driving tool use evolution’
  • IPFC 2023, quadrennial Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Auckland (New Zealand): ‘Fish using tools: Factors driving tool use evolution’
  • ISBE 2022, biennial meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, in Stochkolm (Sweden): ‘Timing of predator perception does not shape transgenerationally-induced changes in behaviour’
  • ESEB 2019, biennial congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Turku (Finland): ‘Maternal or paternal contribution to transgenerational plasticity? Study case on anti-predator defences in Physa acuta’
  • Ecology & Behaviour symposium 2019, Toulouse (France): ‘Parental and developmental environmental effects on behavioral reaction norms in response to predation’
  • Sfe² 2018, International Conference on Ecological Sciences organised by the Sfe² - French Society for Ecology and Evolution, Rennes (France): ‘Developmental and transgenerational carry-over effects on behavioural reaction norms in response to predation’

Poster conference contributions

  • SFECA 2025, annual meeting of the Société Française d’Étude du Comportement Animal, Nanterre (France): ‘Fish using tools: Factors driving tool use evolution’
  • YNMH 2019, Young Natural History Scientists meeting, Paris (France), ⭐ 2nd poster price: ‘Maternal or paternal contributions to transgenerational plasticity of the freshwater snail Physa acuta in response to predation’
  • II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology 2018, joint congress of the scientific societies ESEB, ASN, SSE and SSB, Montpellier (France): ‘Intra- and transgenerational carry-over effects on behavioural reaction norms of the freshwater snail Physa acuta in response to predation’
  • Sfe² 2018, International Conference on Ecological Sciences organised by the Sfe² - French Society for Ecology and Evolution, Rennes (France), ⭐ 1st poster price: ‘Maternal or paternal contributions to transgenerational plasticity of the freshwater snail Physa acuta in response to predation’

🙌 Grants

Grant Granter Year Amount
Conference travel grant SFECA 2025 EUR 200
Conference travel grant ISBE 2024 EUR 1,200
Conference travel grant FSBI 2023 GBP 1,000
Fieldwork research grant Minderoo Foundation 2023 In-king contribution
Small research grant FSBI 2023 GBP 7,500
Postdoctoral fellowship Fyssen Foundation 2022 EUR 80k
Conference travel grant ISBE 2022 USD 400
Conference travel grant SFECA 2022 EUR 250
Workshop travel grant GDR PlasPhen 2017 EUR 300
PhD fellowship École Normale Supérieure de Lyon 2017 EUR 64k

🤝 References

Available upon request