Education
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My genealogy includes many naturalists. From the age of 13, I started breeding insects, a breeding of stick insects that has never been stopped since. So naturally I went for a Master degree in agricultural sciences at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (University of Liege), Belgium).
I decided to pursue with a PhD thesis in the field of Chemical Ecology under the supervision of Professor Eric Haubruge. I went successively to Sweden (University of Lund) then to the United States (University of Pennsylvania) to acquire the modern techniques of chemical ecology. I was successively appointed Lecturer (2009), Senior Lecturer (2013), and then Associate Professor (2017). |
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Awards
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2019 - Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London
2017 - Young researcher Awardee, category Science and Medecine, of the Agence Universitaire pour la Francophonie (voir auf.org) 2017 - Scientific Awardee from the Fondation Désiré Jaumain Awardee (see fondation-desire-jaumain.be) 2009 - Best oral presentation Awardee, Symposium on Crop Protection, Gand. 2008 - Best oral presentation Awardee, 15th conference of Zoology BeNeLux, Bruxelles 2008 - ATLANTIS fellowship awardee for a 6 month internship in the USA |
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Expertise activities
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I am a member of the Scientific Committee of the Federal Agency for Safety of the Food Chain (Belgium) and a member of the Committee of Experts specialized in plant health at ANSES (France). In both instances, I share my expertise in the field of risks associated with phytophagous insects.
Finally, I am an editor for several scientific journals, including Entomologia Generalis, B.A.S.E. et Physiological Entomology. |
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