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I study plant adaptation to changing environments, with a specific focus on mixed mating systems.
The seemingly simple task of determining mating patterns in plants is rendered complex by the environment-dependent variation inherent to most plant mating systems, the dependence of plants on pollen vectors and vice-versa (especially animal-pollinated plants), and the feedback between mating strategies, genetic diversity, and populations dynamics. Moreover, anthropogenic environmental modifications present a new challenge for present-day taxa to rapidly adapt to selective pressures occurring at higher intensity, larger spatial scales, and faster pace than ever before.

To understand these complex eco-evolutionary dynamics between plants, biotic and abiotic environmental variation including anthropogenic ones, and intra- and inter-specific interactions, I use a variety of tools and methods. I combine fieldwork, common garden, and transplant experiments, with quantitative genetics, population genetics, and genomic tools, ecological epigenetics, and landscape ecology.

As a postdoc, I have worked in research teams of various sizes and with different levels of responsibility, ranging from data analyses and publication (2016-2017) to the design and execution of entire experimental studies (2013-2017). Beyond plant mating systems, I have also worked on projects investigating population genetics of invasive species, plant adaptation to climate change thought adaptive differentiation in traits and their plasticity, conservation genetics of endemic species, and contributed to de novo genome assembly in tripanosomatids. Whenever possible, my work covers data and samples gathered from broad geographic ranges, which allows to infer general patterns about species parallel evolution, or to compare environmental factors that result in divergence along environmental clines.