PhD Students

PhD

Stergios-Angelos Arvanitis

PhD Student

Thesis title:
Ecology and Behavior of Carnivorans from the Early Pleistocene of Europe

Start: September 1st 2026

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Email:stergios.arvanitis[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Amngar Dasrabé

PhD Student

Thesis title:
Mio-Pliocene rodents from Chadian hominin sites : biochronological and paleoenvironmental implications

Start: October 1st 2024

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Email:amngar.dasrabe[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Elsa Fillerin

PhD Student

Thesis title:
An integrated study combining biology and paleobiology in the service of conserving a threatened species of high heritage value

Start: November 1st 2026

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Gabrielle Gourdet

PhD Student

Thesis title:
Evolution of dental patterns and occlusal morphologies in catarrhine primates: applying evolutionary models to 3D topographic and geometric morphometric data

Start: October 1st 2026

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Email:gabrielle.gourdet[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Haregwin Belete Hailu

PhD Student

Haregwin Belete Hailu

PhD Student

Thesis title:
Spatial dynamics of Plio-Pleistocene communities (dispersals, endemism, extinctions) in the northern Great African Rift: global vs. local factors

Start: October 1st 2024

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Email:haregwin.hailu[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Harmony Hill

PhD Student

Harmony Hill

PhD Student

Thesis title:
Evolution of cerebral metabolism within the human lineage

Start: October 1st 2024

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Email:harmony.hill[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Paul Joube

PhD Student

Paul Joube

PhD Student

Thesis title:
The Oligocene Potash of the Mulhouse Basin Scientific, Museographic and Educational Enhancement

Start: October 1st 2026

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Email:paul.joube01[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Julian Karoui Canedo

PhD Student

Julian Karoui Canedo

PhD Student

Thesis title:
Comparative ecomorphological analysis of the mio-plio-pleistocene faunas in Central Africa (Chad Basin) and Eastern Africa (Omo Basin): environments and biological evolution at the scale of the African continent

Start: October 1st 2023

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Email:julian.karoui.canedo[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Brillant Miangotar

PhD Student

Brillant Miangotar

PhD Student

Thesis title:
Chadian aquatic environments yesterday and today: characterization and comparison of past and present hydrogeological contexts using sedimentological and geochemical tools; conservation issues

Start: October 1st 2025

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Email:brillant.miangotar[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Zoé Nowicki

PhD Student

Zoé Nowicki

PhD Student

Thesis title:
Covariation of long bones in ancient hominins

Start: October 1st 2024

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Email:zoe.nowicki[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Shanae Page

PhD Student

Shanae Page

PhD Student

Locomotor and dietary behaviors in southern African Plio-Pleistocene cercopithecids

Start: November 1st 2026

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Email:shanae.page[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Laurie Pelissier

PhD Student

Laurie Pelissier

PhD Student

Thesis title:
Carnivores and humans at the end of the Upper Pleistocene in west-central France: an integrated palaeobiology/archaeozoology study

Start: October 1st 2024

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Email:laurie.pelissier[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Jérémy Petex

PhD Student

Jérémy Petex

PhD Student

Thesis title:
Homology and evolution of the snout bone complex in mammals and their non-mammalian therapsid ancestors (maxilla, premaxilla and septomaxilla), inferred from the rostral neurovascular canal system associated with the trigeminal nerve

Start: October 1st 2026

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Email:jeremy.petex[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Léa Pothier

PhD Student

Léa Pothier

PhD Student

Thesis title:
Herbivores, ecological trajectories, and climate warming: reconstructing the past to inform the future. A multi-proxy approach in non-anthropized Eemian ecosystems

Start: October 1st 2026

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