Résumé 

  • 2013 – ongoing: Franchised researcher, with habilitation (docent), Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences  (permanently externally funded position).

  • 2011 – 2013: Contracted researcher, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2-year externally funded position).

  • 2007 – 2011: Assistant researcher, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (4-year faculty-funded position).

  • 2007: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, University of Bern.

  • 2005 – 2007: Assistant lecturer (hourly duties), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and Université Technologique de Troyes.

  • 2003 – 2005: Assistant lecturer (Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche), Université d’Angers.

Education

Political science & military strategy
  • Master of Arts in International Relations and Contemporary War with distinction (2023), Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

  • Certificate in Wargaming (2022), Military Operations Research Society, Arlington, VA and Virginia Tech.

  • Cycle Intelligence Économique et Stratégique (67th session, 2019), Institut des Hautes Études de la Défense Nationale, École Militaire, Paris.

  • Graduate Diploma in Politics with first-class honour (2018), University of London (taught by the London School of Economics).


Quantitative ecology & veterinary medicine
  • Habilitation in Ecology (Docent, 2013) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

  • Doctoral degree in Ecology (PhD, 2004) at the Université Pierre & Marie Curie and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Directed by Dr. Jean Clobert (main supervisor, CNRS Paris), Prof. Régis Ferrière and Dr. Stéphane Legendre (assistant supervisors, Université Paris 6).

  • Master of Science in Ecology (MSc, 2000) at the Université Pierre & Marie Curie and the Institut National d’Agronomie Paris-Grignon.

  • Diploma of Veterinary Medicine (DVM, 1998) at the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort.

Grants

I have raised more than 8 million euros through competitive research grants from diverse funders. The most significant grants since 2010 are listed below:

  • 2021 – Biodiversa: EUR 1,304,000 (Translocations of flora and fauna for conservation and restoration: ecological, evolutionary, and socio-economic impacts at multiple scales. co-applicant with Pr. Sarrazin, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle).

  • 2020 – VR Swedish Research Council: EUR 1,650,000 (Research Environment Grant in Humanities and Social Sciences: Can laws save the natural world? project leader).

  • 2019 – FORMAS Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development: EUR 287,000 (A systematic mapping of public interest litigation for species conservation in the European Union, project leader).

  • 2019 – FORMAS Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development: EUR 290,000 (Environmental Rights for Environmental Protection, co-applicant with Dr. Epstein, Uppsala University).

  • 2018 – VR Swedish Research Council: EUR 350,000 (Why does species conservation succeed in some countries but fail in others? Project leader).

  • 2018 – Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: EUR 250,000 (Natural Science in Law: Developing Theory and Methodologies for Interdisciplinary Research in Environmental Law, co-applicant with Dr. Epstein, Uppsala University).

  • 2018 – FORMAS Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development: EUR 200,000 (Nature rights to the rescue of life on land and below water, project leader).

  • 2016 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 476,000 (Nature protection and dispensation: Improving the application of the Environmental Code to achieve environmental quality objectives, co-applicant with Prof. Zetterberg, Uppsala University).

  • 2015 – FORMAS Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development: EUR 284,000 (The scale and consequence of predator control, project leader).

  • 2015 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 30,000 (An updated synthesis on appropriate science-based criteria for “favourable reference population” of the Scandinavian wolf population, co-applicant with Dr. Liberg, SLU).

  • 2015 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 30,000 (Population estimates for the Scandinavian wolf population and sample-based monitoring, co-applicant with Dr. Wikenros, SLU).

  • 2015 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 367,000 (Scandinavian wolf ecology and management from a multispecies perspective, co-applicant with Dr. Sand, SLU).

  • 2015 – Conference of European Directors of Roads: EUR 598,000 (Safe roads for wildlife and people, co-applicant with Dr. Seiler, SLU).

  • 2014 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 509,000 (Claws and laws: A dialogue between law and ecology, project leader).

  • 2013 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 350,000 (The interplay between ticks, tick-borne diseases and wildlife in Sweden – season 2, co-applicant with Prof. Kjellander, SLU).

  • 2013 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 115,000 (Wolf movements around fences, livestock and humans with dogs, co-applicant with Dr. Frank, SLU).

  • 2012 – European Commission: EUR 99,000 (Support the European Commission's policy on large carnivores under the Habitat Directive, co-applicant with Prof. Boitani, University of Roma).

  • 2012 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 570,000 (Demography, genetics and ecosystem effects of the re-colonizing Scandinavian wolf population, co-applicant with Dr. Sand, SLU).

  • 2012 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 30,000 (Assessing the wolf population viability in Sweden, project leader).

  • 2012 – FORMAS Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development: EUR 325,000 (Merging demography and genetics to manage a small wolf population, co-applicant with Dr. Åkesson, SLU).

  • 2012 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 100,000 (The interplay between ticks, tick-borne diseases and wildlife in Sweden, co-applicant with Dr. Kjellander, SLU).

  • 2012 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 97,000 (Making decisions under uncertainty in management of large carnivores, project leader).

  • 2010 – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: EUR 52,000 (Planning for sustainable management of large carnivores, project leader).

Miscellaneous

  • Expert member at the IUCN Species Survival Commission Cat, Canid Specialist Groups and the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe.

  • Reviewer for Ambio, Animal Conservation, Biological Conservation, Biodiversity and Conservation, Bioscience, Conservation Biology, Conservation Letters, Diversity & Distribution, Ecography, Ecological Applications, Ecological Modelling, Ecology Letters, Ecology & Society, Ecosphere, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Science & Policy, European Journal of Wildlife Research, European Zoological Journal, Frontiers in Zoology, Global Ecology and Conservation, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Mammalogy, Mastozoologia Neotropical, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Oikos, Oryx, PLoS ONE, PNAS, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, Science, Science Advances, Scientific Reports, Wildlife Biology. Subject Editor for Rethinking Ecology.

  • Reviewer for the Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité (France), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds (Austria) and European Research Council.

Institutionen för ekologi
Grimsö Forskningsstation
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
SE-730 91 Riddarhyttan
Sverige

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