Current members
Timothée Poisot
Ecologist. Teaches data analysis, ecological modelling, and responsible use of data.
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal
Alice Doucet Beaupré
2022-, Post-doctoral researcher. Unsupervised learning and uncertainty quantification for network prediction.
Ariane Bussières-Fournel
2024, B.Sc. research assistant. Sero-prevalence of Canine Distemper Virus over an urbanisation gradient.
Ben Kaza
2024-, Verena graduate fellow-in-residence. Signatures of viral pathogenenis in high-dimensional datasets.
Cole Brookson
2024, visiting Ph.D. Quantifying predictability of environmental change and disease dynamics.
Cristian Cruz Rodriguez
2023-, Ph.D. Large-scale modeling of land-use change to support conservation policy-making.
Emily Beasley
2023-, Post-doctoral researcher. Optimized spatial sampling of epidemic processes.
Francis Banville
2020-, Ph.D. Machine Learning techniques for food web structure inference at the planetary scale. Co-advisor: Dominique Gravel
Gabriel Dansereau
2021-, Ph.D. Quantification of the structural originality of food webs over continuous spatial scales.
2019-2021, M.Sc. Development of beta-diversity measures for spatially continuous hotspot identification. Co-advisor: Pierre Legendre.
Maria Isabel Arce Plata
2022-, Ph.D. Machine learning for the upscaling of field observation of plant functional traits. Co-advisor: Natalia Norden.
Michael D. Catchen
2024-, Post-doctoral researcher. Computer vision tools for ecological niche modeling.
Norma Forero
2020-, Ph.D. Machine Learning and Data Synthesis for the prediction of viral spillover events. Co-advisor: Patrick Leighton
Stéphanie Shousha
2023-, Post-doctoral researcher. Natural and human influences on coupled carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in watersheds. Advisor: Roxane Maranger.
Former members
Alexandrine Frappier
2018, BSc research assistant. Review of best practices to use image recognition software on wildlife cameras.
Amélie Muller
2015, M.Sc. Understanding how management programs could gain from studying the variability of plant-pollinator interactions.
Andréanne Dupont
2019-, M.Sc. Biogeography of lakes ecosystem services. Advisor: Roxane Maranger.
Andrew MacDonald
2019-2020, Post-doctoral researcher. Development of biodiversity indicators for the governmental monitoring of biodiversity.
2018-2019, Post-doctoral researcher. High-throughput processing of camera-trap data.
Aude Rebattet
2023-, M.Sc. research assistant. Temporal dynamics of landcape connectivity and zoonotic risk.
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
2021-, M.Sc. Deep-learning for the bioacousting monitoring of bird communities.
Christophe Benjamin
2017, BSc research assistant. Automated extraction of phylogenetic data from species interaction networks.
Cynthia Guéveneux-Julien
2015-2016, BSc Hons. Planification, management, and restoration of landscape connectivity in the Laurentians.
2015, BSc research assisant. Environmental drivers of host-parasite interaction variability.
Daphnée Lecours-Tessier
2018-2020, M.Sc. Blue-green connectivity and ecosystem integrity in the Laurentians. Co-advisor: Roxane Maranger.
2017-2018, B.Sc. research assistant. Best practices for the development and implementation of ecological corridors. Co-advisor: Roxane Maranger.
Dominique Caron
2017, M.Sc. Inventory of open biodiversity data in Quebec, and creation of decision-helping tools.
Émilie Vinet
2018, BSc research assistant. Machine learning techniques to produce dynamics maps of land use from digitized and numeric maps.
Ethan Lamy
2023, B.Sc. research assistant. Trophic regulation of biting vector by omnivorous bats.
Eva Delmas
2015-2020, Ph.D. Causes and consequences in the relationships between food web structure and ecosystem functioning. Co-advisor: Daniel B. Stouffer.
Fares Dhane
2019, M.Sc. Training of a neural network for mammals recognition in Québec. Advisor: Andrew MacDonald.
Gracielle Higino
2019-2020, visiting Ph.D. Biological interactions, environmental variables, and biogeographical species distributions.
Grégoire Bonenfant
2017, BSc research assistant. Measures of species complementarity in quantitative networks.
Iman Sicot
2020, BSc research assistant. Survey of data on food webs in North America.
Joseph B. Burant
2020-, Post-doctoral fellow with the Living Data Project.
Kari Norman
2022-2023, Post-doctoral researcher. Development of multi-criteria monitoring and biosurveillance networks.
Kiri Stern
2020, M.Sc. Neural networks for rapid connectivity analyses.
2019, M.Sc. Prey use of generalist predators across their range.
Luisa Novara
2020, Research assistant. Preparation of data for the forecasting of coronaviruses epidemic risk.
Marie-Andrée Ouellet
2020, M.Sc. research intern. Singular Value Decomposition as an imputation method for host-virus detection.
Mathilde Besson
2016-2022, Ph.D. Eco-evolutionary dynamics in networks of positive and negative interactions. Co-advisor: Dominique Gravel.
Mathis Gheno
2023, M.Sc. international visitor. Identification of structurally important interactions in network data.
Michiel Stock
2017-2018, visting post-doctoral researcher. Pairwise learning to predict the structure of ecological networks.
Miléna Aragon
2020, M.Sc. research assistant. Development of indicators for the communication of urban biodiversity trends.
Nerea Montes Perez
2023-, visiting Ph.D. Spatial structure of plant-pollination networks in Europe. Advisor: Ignasi Bartomeus.
Philippe Desjardins-Proulx
2019-2023, Post-doctoral researcher. Type theory and higher-order probabilistic programming for ecological synthesis.
2014-2018, Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence applied to theory building for ecological synthesis. Advisor: Dominique Gravel.
Piotr Szefer
2018, visiting Ph.D. Implementation of structural models of food web structure.
Renaud McKinnon
2013-2016, M.Sc. Interactions between trees from experimental plantations and their microbial ectosymbionts.
Salomé Bouskila
2021-2022, M.Sc. research intern. Pathogen sharing in the global virome.
Samuel Provencher-Tardif
2021, M.Sc. research intern. Meta-models for inference and forecasting of biodiversity uniqueness.
2022, M.Sc. research intern. Ethical implications of the use of UAVs for biodiversity research.
Sandrine Soeharjono
2019, M.Sc. Development of indicators based on eBird data to survey urban biodiversity changes in Montréal.
Sarahdghyn Louissaint
2024, M.Sc. research intern. Meta-analysis of surveillance strategies for the Racoon rabies virus in Eastern Canada/United States.
Stéphanie Préfontaine
2017-2020, M.Sc. Impacts of temperature on the metabolic rates of ecological communities. Advisor: Dominique Gravel.
Steve Vissault
2019-2020, Ph.D. Automated aggregation, synthesis, and forecasting of unstructured biodiversity data.
2018-2019, Staff scientist. Improvements on the mangal.io database backend and frontend.
Tanya Strydom
2020-2024, Ph.D. Common properties of species interactions networks across space.
Valentine Volz
2020, B.Sc. research assistant. Structural analysis of the host-sharing network of coronaviruses.
2021-2023, M.Sc. Spatial structure of ecological networks over large gradients.
Zachary Bélisle
2018, M.Sc. Variation in the composition of insect communities in forest fragments. Advisor: Colin Favret.
2017-2018, BSc Hons. Robustness of permutation tests for the analysis of ecological network structure.