Professional Service and Advisory Positions

 

Scientific committee

 

Member of the scientific committee for the XV ESEB (European Society for Evolutionary Biology) congress 2015, 10-14 August

Member of the organizing committee for the XV ESEB (European Society for Evolutionary Biology) congress 2015, 10-14 August

Committee member of the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, https://cites.org/eng ) 2014-

Member of the thesis committee of Erica Fumagalli supervised by Prof. L. Lehmann, University of Lausanne, 2014.

Member of the committee « AGIR pour l'égalité » of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine. University of Lausanne, 2012 - 2013.

Member of the thesis committee of Sebastian Novak PhD. student - Prof. N. Barton, 2012. at IST Vienna

Member of Scientific committee for the election of a group leader at ETH-EAWAG- Prof. J. Jokela, 2008.

Member of the thesis committee of Stephane Joost, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, EPFL, 2006.

Member of the National Forum on Ecological Compensation Areas 2001-2003.

Member of the Research Commission, Environmental Sciences and Engineering Section, EPFL, 2004-2005.

 

Referee for International Journals 

 

The American Naturalist, Animal, Biological Invasion, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Conservation Biology, Ecography, Ecology, Evolution, Landscape and Urban Planning, Ecological Applications, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, Functional Ecology, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Frontiers in Genetics, Genetics, Journal of Applied Ecology Biology, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Landscape Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Oikos, Plos One, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Theoretical Population Biology.

 

 

External referee for International and National research agencies

 

American National Science Foundation (NSF), Canada Foundation for Innovation, Czech Science Foundation, French National Research Agency (ANR), Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research, Council of Canada; Ouranos - Consortium sur les changements climatiques (Canada), Swiss National Science Foundation

 

 

 

 

 

Invited seminars

 

Keynote speaker for symposium on Plant and Animal Conservation Ecology PACE15, invited by Society of Conservation

Biology, Europe  Section (SCB-EU-CH) and the Swiss Biodiversity Forum (SCNAT), 11 February 2015, Eawag Dübendorf

Keynote speaker for 8° Symposium "Eco-evolutionary dynamics", Thursday 5 February 2015 at the University of Antwerp,

Belgium

Université d'Angers invited by Prof. J. Secondi November 7, 2012.

IST, Austria invited by Prof. Nick Barton. Sept. 4, 2012.

On the intersection of landscape genomics and theoretical population genetics. MESSAGE workshop December 13, 2012, EPFL,

Lausanne

University Paris-Sud France, invited by Dr. T. Giraud, December 15, 2011.

University of Bern, Zoology seminar Bern Switzerland.invited by Prof.  L. Excoffier, November 24 2008.

Landscape Genetics, Grenoble, France. October 20.– 23 2008.

ETH -EAWAG, Ecology and evolution , Switzerland, invited by Prof. O. Seehaussen, May 28 2008.

ETH -WSL, Research Unit Ecological Genetics & Evolution, Birmensdorf Switzerland, invited by Dr.

F. Gügerli, July, 18 2007.

Ohio State University. Columbus, US, Invited by the Mathematical Biosciences Institute, March 23 2006,

University of Lausanne, Department of Ecology and Evolution,  Switzerland invited by Prof. N. Perrin February 22. 2006.

 

 

 

Visiting and invited stays

 

University of Florida, Gainesville, Prof. Holt’s Lab, 10-23 January 2010.

University of Queensland, Australia, Prof. Hugh Possingham’ s lab, 12 Feb. – 8 March 2009.

University of Leiden, The Netherland, Prof. JJM van Alphen and Prof. R. Lande (UC, San Diego), 16-21 December 2006

University of Columbus, Ohio, The Mathematical Biosciences Institute, 20-31 March 2006

University of Leiden, The Netherland, Prof. JJM van Alphen and Prof. R. Lande (UC, San Diego), 15-19 August and 19-23 December 2005

 

 

 

Workshops and conferences (- 5 years)

 

Peak and persistent excess of genetic diversity following an abrupt migration increase Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013, Workshop on Mathematics for an Evolving Biodiversity, September 16-20, 2013, Centre de recherches mathematiques, Montreal, Canada

 

Transition from reproductive systems governed by two self-incompatible loci to one in fungi. Recent advances on the evolution of sex and genetic systems, May 22-26, 2013, Roscoff (Brittany), France

 

From migration models to gene flow: fixation in heterogeneous populations. Evolution, 1st Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology July 6-10, 2012; Ottawa, Canada.

 

Transitions from reproductive systems governed by two self-incompatible loci to one. Evolution of sex-determination mechanisms, June 6-9, 2012, La Sage, Switzerland

 

Genetic diversity of metapopulation under temporal changes of connectivity. Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution conference 2011 - 17-19 August 2011, Groningen, Netherland.

 

Effect of migration structure on fixation probability in heterogeneous populations, Evolution in metapopulations. 30 August-2 September 2009. La Fouly, Switzerland.

 

Invasion and fixation of sex-reversal genes in structured populations CUSO workshop, Evolution of sex-determination mechanisms, La Sage (VS) Switzerland, 17-20 June 2009