Team

Resarch

Resarchers &
Research-lecturers

The laboratory is composed of CNRS researchers
and teacher-researchers from the University of Poitiers.

Amélie Beaudet

CNRS Junior Professor

Amélie Beaudet

CNRS Junior Professor

The general research
My research focuses on the paleobiology of Plio-Pleistocene hominins with a particular interest in the evolutionary and adaptive contexts from which the genus Homo emerged.

Detailed profile

Email:amelie.beaudet[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Mouloud Benammi

CNRS Research engineer (IR)

Mouloud Benammi

CNRS Research engineer (IR)

Research support mission
I ensure the implementation and the proper functioning of our palaeomagnetic lab. I process research requests from researchers in our unit as well as other researchers from third-party institutions (in form of collaborations).

Detailed profile

Email:mouloud.benammi[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Emilie Berlioz

CNRS Researcher

Emilie Berlioz

CNRS Researcher

Main research
My research focuses on the palaeoecology of large herbivores from the European Pleistocene. I analyse their responses to past climatic oscillations in order to anticipate their future ecological trajectories under the combined pressures of global warming and anthropisation.

Detailed profile

Email:emilie.berlioz[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Cécile Blondel

Assistant Professor UP

Cécile Blondel

Assistant Professor UP

Main research
Systematic, phylogeny of artiodactyls ; reconstruction of paleoenvironments from ungulates.

Detailed profile

Email:cecile.blondel[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Jean-Renaud Boisserie

CNRS Senior Researcher

Actuellement rattaché au CFEE

Jean-Renaud Boisserie

CNRS Senior Researcher

Currently affiliated with the CFEE in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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

Detailed profile

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

Yaowalak Chaimanee

CNRS Research engineer (IR)

Yaowalak Chaimanee

CNRS Research engineer (IR)

Research support mission
My work involves organizing field missions and associated excavations, particularly in Southeast Asia. The search for new sites in the region’s sedimentary basins (Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos) is of paramount importance and requires an extensive network of communication with the regional Earth sciences community.

Detailed profile

Email:yao.chaimanee[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Olivier Chavasseau

Assistant Professor UP

Assistant Director of the Unit

Olivier Chavasseau

Assistant Professor UP

Main research
My research explores the evolution of anthropoid- and hominoid-bearing faunas in the Cenozoic of Southeast Asia.

Detailed profile

Email:olivier.chavasseau[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Guillaume Daver

Assistant Professor UP

Guillaume Daver

Assistant Professor UP

Main research
My research aims at studying primate locomotion (notably apes and humans) in order to understand the relationships between primate behavior and their ecosystem, and the role of such an interaction in the course of human evolution.

Detailed profile

Email:guillaume.daver[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Stéphane Ducrocq

CNRS Senior Researcher

Stéphane Ducrocq

CNRS Senior Researcher

Main research
My research mainly concerns the origin and evolutionary history of the Old World Anthracotheriidae and basal artiodactyls.

Detailed profile

Email:stephane.ducrocq[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Géraldine Garcia

Assistant Professor UP

Géraldine Garcia

Assistant Professor UP

Main research
Paleoherpetologist, my research activities have focused on the evolution of reptile fauna and their environments in deep times.

Detailed profile

Email:geraldine.garcia[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Camille Grohé

Assistant Professor UP

Camille Grohé

Assistant Professor UP

Main research
My research aims at better understanding the mechanisms driving the evolutionary dynamics of communities and ecosystems. I am particularly interested in the evolution of interactions between carnivoran mammals (lions, saber-toothed cats, hyaenas, dogs…) and hominins in eastern Africa from the Miocene to the Pleistocene.

Detailed profile

Email:camille.grohe[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Franck Guy

CNRS Researcher

Franck Guy

CNRS Researcher

Main research
My research focus on hominin origin and evolution. In particular, I’m interested in cranial and dental material of African Mio-Pliocene hominins.

Detailed profile

Email:franck-guy[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Vincent Lazzari

Assistant Professor UP

Vincent Lazzari

Assistant Professor UP

Main research
My research aims at identifying and interpreting the mechanisms (function, adaptation, development…) which drive tooth morphological evolution in mammals.

Detailed profile

Email:vincent.lazzari[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Gildas Merceron

CNRS Senior Researcher

Director of the Unit

Gildas Merceron

CNRS Senior Researcher

Main research
My research aims at exploring the ecology of mammals to assess the underlying mechanisms of their evolutionary history. This also provides inescapable proxies to depict the available vegetal resources needed to reconstruct past ecosystems and their changes through time.

Detailed profile

Email:gildas.merceron[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Olga Otero

Professor UP

Olga Otero

Professor UP

Main research
As a paleoichthyologist, I focus my research on the link between Evolution and Environment in deep times, and notably the balance between climate and geology and their impact on faunas.

Detailed profile

Email:olga.otero[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Patrick Vignaud

Professor UP

Patrick Vignaud

Professor UP

Main research
My research focuses on the evolution of Mesozoic and Cenozoic crocodyliforms, as well as on the palaeoenvironmental context of hominin evolution.

Detailed profile

Email:patrick.vignaud[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Research

Research support

Mouloud Benammi

CNRS Research engineer (IR)

Mouloud Benammi

CNRS Research engineer (IR)

Email:mouloud.benammi[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Yaowalak Chaimanee

CNRS Research engineer (IR)

Yaowalak Chaimanee

CNRS Research engineer (IR)

Email:yao.chaimanee[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Lizon Delomosne

Short-term Assistant Engineer

Lizon Delomosne

Short-term Assistant Engineer

Research support mission
I specialize in tridimensional digitization and 3D modeling of cultural heritage. I explore the possibilities of digital imagery for the study, the valorization and the transmission of PALEVOPRIM’s collections.

Detailed profile

Email:lizon.delomosne[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Adélaïde Euriat

Study Engineer (IE)

Adélaïde Euriat

Study Engineer (IE)

Research support mission
Collection, management, processing and analysis of large fossil and current datasets and metadata at various scales (centimetric to global); Hardware, software and analytical advice and assistance to users.

Detailed profile

Email:adelaide.euriat[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Laure Painault

Technical Assistant UP

Laure Painault

Technical Assistant UP

Research support mission
I provide administrative and logistical support for research and teaching activities. I coordinate and organize information within the laboratory, ensuring the efficient management of administrative processes and internal communication.

Detailed profile

Email:laure.painault[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Guylaine Reynaud

CNRS Technician

Guylaine Reynaud

CNRS Technician

Research support mission
I am responsible for financial and administrative management. In particular, I coordinate business travel arrangements in France and abroad, including numerous fieldwork missions in Africa and Asia.

Detailed profile

Email:guylaine.reynaud[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Sabine Riffaut

Technician UP

Sabine Riffaut

Technician UP

Research support mission
I am in charge of the communication and scientific development of PALEVOPRIM and the Geosciences Training Unit of the University of Poitiers.

Detailed profile

Email:sabine.riffaut[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Jérôme Surault

Assistant Engineer UP (AI)

Jérôme Surault

Assistant Engineer UP (AI)

Research support mission
Complete activities from fossiliferous sites location, field works and fossils sampling to collection management and 2D/3D image processing in laboratory.

Detailed profile

Email:jerome.surault[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Xavier Valentin

Research engineer UP (IR)

Xavier Valentin

Research engineer UP (IR)

Research support mission
I am responsible for the fossil specimen preparation and casting workshop. I also take part in field expeditions.

Detailed profile

Email:xavier.valentin[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Postdoc

Postdoctoral
researchers

Edwin De Jager

Postdoctoral fellow

Edwin De Jager

Postdoctoral fellow

Main research
I am funded by the Fyssen Foundation to explore how the human brain evolved. More specifically, what was the cortical organisation of the earliest hominins, and how did key human-like brain features emerge and change over time?

Detailed profile

Email:edwin.de.jager[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Maxime Lasseron

Postdoctoral fellow

Maxime Lasseron

Postdoctoral fellow

Main research
I study the paleobiodiversity, evolution, and paleobiogeography of Mesozoic continental vertebrates, with a particular focus on microvertebrates, especially those from the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition of Africa and Western Europe.

Detailed profile

Email:maxime.lasseron[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Charlotte Theye

Postdoctoral fellow

Charlotte Theye

Postdoctoral fellow

Main research
Charlotte’s postdoctoral project, funded by the Fyssen Foundation, is entitled: “Walking with our ancestors: how did locomotor behaviour influenced the brain of fossil hominins?”. The project focuses on the vertebral column, and more specifically on the vertebral trabecular bone structure, of extant and fossil primates.

Detailed profile

Email:charlotte.theye@univ-poitiers.fr

PhD

PhD Students

Amngar Dasrabé

PhD Student

Amngar Dasrabé

PhD Student

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

Start: October 1st 2024

Detailed profile

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

Haregwin Belete Hailu

PhD Student

Haregwin Belete Hailu

PhD Student

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

Start: October 1st 2024

Detailed profile

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

Harmony Hill

PhD Student

Harmony Hill

PhD Student

Topic
Evolution of cerebral metabolism within the human lineage

Start: October 1st 2024

Detailed profile

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

Julian Karoui Canedo

PhD Student

Julian Karoui Canedo

PhD Student

Topic
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

Detailed profile

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

Brillant Miangotar

PhD Student

Brillant Miangotar

PhD Student

Topic:
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

Detailed profile

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

Zoé Nowicki

PhD Student

Zoé Nowicki

PhD Student

Topic:
Covariation of long bones in ancient hominins

Start: October 1st 2024

Detailed profile

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

Laurie pelissier

PhD Student

Laurie pelissier

PhD Student

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

Start: October 1st 2024

Detailed profile

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

Emerit

Emeritus

Michel Brunet

Professor Emeritus

Michel Brunet

Professor Emeritus

Main research
Emergence and evolutionary history of primates:
- From the earliest representatives of the human lineage to the appearance of the genus Homo;
- In search of fossil gorillas and chimpanzees;
-The Southern Lands and the ancestors of New World monkeys.”

Detailed profile

Email:michel.brunet[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Louis De Bonis

Professor Emeritus

Louis De Bonis

Professor Emeritus

Main research
I work on quite large panel of thematic from Miocene hominoids (about 9 to 8 million years – Ma) and their position in hominid phylogeny to carnivore evolution from the late Eocene to the Pliocene (37 to 5 Ma).

Detailed profile

Email:louis.de.bonis[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Jean-Jacques Jaeger

Professor Emeritus

Jean-Jacques Jaeger

Professor Emeritus

Main research
My research interest concerns the history and the evolution of mammals in South East Asia and the contribution of that province to the emergence of the extant group of mammals.

En savoir plus

Email:jean.jacques.jaeger[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Member

Associated
members

Tomas Getachew Bedane

Postdoctoral fellow

Tomas Getachew Bedane

Postdoctoral fellow

Main research
My research aims at revising the diversity of fossil proboscideans from Ethiopia, as well as to study their paleoecology.

Detailed profile

Alicia Blasi-Toccacceli

Postdoctoral fellow

Alicia Blasi-Toccacceli

Postdoctoral fellow

Main research
My research focus on morphological characteristics of human locomotion notably in order to pinpoint how they may have impacted stone tool production.

Detailed profile

Axelle Gardin

Postdoctoral fellow

Axelle Gardin

Postdoctoral fellow

Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM)

Main research
Specialized in the study of freshwater vertebrates, my research aims to reconstruct ancient aquatic ecosystems, water availability, and seasonal contrasts in intertropical African environments.

Detailed profile

Email:axelle.gardin[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Olivier Jansen

Postdoctoral fellow

Olivier Jansen

Postdoctoral fellow

Main research
The objective of my PhD is to better understand, through an integrated study, the establishment of continental wetlands by analysing the diversity of sentinel ectothermic vertebrates and the modifications of ecosystems based on fossil assemblages of french reference sites.

Detailed profile

Email:olivier.jansen[at]univ-poitiers.fr

Anne Le Maitre

Postdoctoral fellow

Vienne, Austria

Anne Le Maitre

Postdoctoral fellow

University of Vienna

Main research
My primary research interest is in the comprehension of the developmental and evolutionary mechanisms underlying body morphology in vertebrates and especially in primates.

Detailed profile

Email:anne.le.maitre[at]univie.ac.at

Victoria Lockwood

Postdoctoral fellow

Victoria Lockwood

Postdoctoral fellow

Main research
My research focuses on the level of behavioural resolution that it is possible to obtain from skeletal morphology and the implications for the potential arboreal locomotor capabilities of fossil hominins. I focus on the appendicular skeleton, particularly the upper limb.

Detailed profile

Margot Louail

Postdoctoral fellow

Margot Louail

Postdoctoral fellow

Harvard University, USA

Main research
Based on experimental approaches, one of the main objectives of my research is to capture the consumption of different proportions of food resources (similar to fallback foods targeted by early hominins) in the diet of pigs from the ANR projet DIET-Scratches.

Detailed profile

Email:margotlouail[at]g.harvard.edu

Laurent Pallas

Postdoctoral fellow

Laurent Pallas

Postdoctoral fellow

HNHP, Paris

Main research
My research focuses on the evolution and ecology of fossil and extant cercopithecid monkeys.

Detailed profile

Email:laurent.pallas[at]mnhn.fr

Blade Engda Redae

Postdoctoral fellow

Blade Engda Redae

Postdoctoral fellow

Main research
Le principal objectif de ce projet est de reconstituer le contexte environnemental accompagnant l’émergence de la technologie oldowayenne dans la Formation de Shungura (basse vallée de l’Omo, Ethiopie) autour de 2,3 Ma. Ce projet s’inscrit dans la continuité de mon travail de doctorat.

Detailed profile

Ghislain Thiery

Développeur

Ghislain Thiery

Développeur

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Email:ghislain.thiery[at]ntymail.com

Axelle Walker

Postdoctoral fellow

Axelle Walker

Postdoctoral fellow

Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)

Main research
Axelle Walker is a postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary biology.

Detailed profile

Email:axelle.walker@cenieh.es

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