jean.renaud.boisserie[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Main Research

I study the evolutionary history of extinct large mammals, their impact on their fossil ecosystems, and the factors that shaped their paleobiology.

Study fieldworks

I apply this approach to the large semiaquatic herbivores, notably fossils hippopotamids, of which I study the diversity, the relationships, the ecology, and the distribution.

I also supervise researches at the ecosystem scale by focusing on the Neogene of Africa and groups such as suids and hominids.

Main field site

J’ai créé pour cela l’Omo Group Research Expedition, dont la recherche transdisciplinaire porte sur la Formation de Shungura, dans la basse vallée de l’Omo en Éthiopie.

Project management

  • Task manager of the ANR project EVAH, from 2009 to 2013.
  • Supervisor of the ANR project SPLASH, from 2016 to 2020.
  • Technical and scientific manager of the ANR project OLD, from 2017 to 2021.
  • Supervisor of the Region Nouvelle Aquitaine project ECCE OMO, from 2017 to 2020.

Responsibilities

Ethiopia

Excavation of a proboscidean mandible

Omo Site, Ethiopia

Cercopithecid mandible

National Museum of Ethiopia

Inauguration of the new permanent gallery titled ‘Million Years of Life and Culture in Ethiopia

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