CURRENT SITUATION --- Since September 2024, I am a CNRS researcher hosted as an integrated member at GreenUPorto, University of Porto, with the objective of developing scientific cooperation projects between France and Portugal. This follows a period of three years where I was seconded from the CNRS to CIBIO, Portugal, where I served as Associate Director in the context of an EU Teaming grant involving the University of Montpellier. ////////// SCIENTIFIC AREA, OUTPUT, RECOGNITION AND EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES --- Research fields: Evolutionary biology, genomics, bioinformatics -- Research topics: biology of the sexes, sexual systems, sex determination, sex chromosomes, plants -- Publications: 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals (including 9 recommendations in F1000, 3 recommendations in PCI Evol Biol and PCI Genomics), 5 book chapters -- Prizes: CNRS Bronze Medal 2012 (CNRS award for young scientists) -- Invited scientist: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) – Oeiras, Portugal (3 months in 2009 and 1 year in 2011–2012); ETH Zurich, Switzerland (1 month, 2014); Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) – Lisbon, Portugal (2 years, 2019–2021) -- Editorial and refereeing activities: referee for more than 30 journals (including Nature, Science, Nature Communications, Nature Plants, PNAS, Current Biology, PLoS Biology, Genome Research, MBE) and more than 10 funding agencies (including ERC, ANR, Marie Curie). PCI recommender. Panel Member for ANR (2015) -- ////////// MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING --- Associate Director of CIBIO – Associação BIOPOLIS in the context of the H2020 Teaming project “BIOPOLIS” (30 M€) -- Creation and leadership of the research group “Sex and Evolution” at LBBE for 10 years (2009–2019) -- Training in positive leadership and management: University Degree (DU) in “Positive Psychology”, University Grenoble-Alpes (2015–2016) -- ////////// SUPERVISION, MENTORING AND TEACHING --- Supervision of 7 postdoctoral researchers, 7 PhD students, and 22 Master’s students (including 5 former PhD students/postdocs recruited as permanent researchers or professors at CNRS, CIRAD, INRIA, and Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile) -- Teaching experience: 64 hours/year until 2011 and approximately 20 hours/year until 2021 in evolutionary biology, molecular evolution, genomics, and bioinformatics at Master’s and PhD levels, in Lyon (France) and abroad. Creation and coordination of the EU course “Comparative Genomics” within the Master of Biosciences at ENS Lyon (2008–2011) -- ////////// TRACK RECORD IN GRANTS AND CONTRACTS --- Grants as main coordinator: PlantGenomYX – ANR PRC (started in 2021, 592 k€), NGSex – ANR PRC (2015–2019, 500 k€), SiXY – ANR Starting Grant (2009–2011, 150 k€); Grants as co-PI: LongevitY – ANR PRC (started in 2021, 597 k€), SexPrim – ANR PRC (2013–2017, 512 k€), Trans – ANR PRC (2012–2016, 530 k€), Melody – ANR PRC (2012–2016, 600 k€) -- ////////// COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCE --- 17 invited talks at international meetings and workshops (e.g. SMBE annual meetings, CNRS Jacques Monod conferences, meetings of PhD students in evolutionary biology, Lausanne Genomics Days) -- 36 invited seminars in European universities (e.g. BiRC – Aarhus, Milner Centre – Bath, Institute for Ecology and Evolution – Bern, Institute of Evolutionary Biology – Edinburgh, Max Planck Institute – Cologne, Department of Ecology and Evolution – Lausanne, ISA – Lisbon, CEFE and ISEM – Montpellier, Botanical Garden Munich, IGC – Oeiras, Max Planck Institute – Tübingen, Linnean Centre – Uppsala, ETH Zurich) -- Organisation of several symposia and meetings, including SMBE 2010 in Lyon (co-lead organiser)