Experience

Since 2014	Guest scientist at the Laboratory of Functional and Environmental Ecology-EcoLab Toulouse, France (CNRS, UPS, INPT)
June 2017 - October 2018	Confirmed researcher at the UFZ Departments Conservation Biology (K. Henle)
June 2015-2017	Marie-Curie Fellow at the UFZ Departments Systems ecotoxicology (M. Liess) and Conservation Biology (K. Henle)
November 2012 - December 2013	Researcher at the CNRS Unit EcoLab (UMR 5245), Toulouse (JL Probst)
September 2013	Guest professor in Conservation Biology at the Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University
Dec 2007-October 2012	Post-Doc at the biological station for experimental ecology of the CNRS (USR 2936)
July 2007 - Sept 2007	Visiting researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department Conservation Biology, Leipzig, Germany
March 2007 - Dec 2007	Post-Doc at the Emirates Center of Wildlife Propagation, Missour, Morocco
Sept 2006 - Feb 2007	Post-Doc at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department Conservation Biology, Leipzig, Germany
Sept 2004 - Aug 2006	Temporary Teaching and Assistant Researcher (ATER) in behavioural ecology, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Animale, Université d’Angers, France Research on sexual selection in the Palmate newt, bet-hedging in Rana sp. Teaching ranges from 1st to 4th year students Created a course in Ethology for 1st year students in Psychology
Apr - June 2004	Scientific guide. Parc Zooloqique de Clères, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France
Sept 03 - Jan 04	Temporary teacher in high school (biology classes), Region Paris, France
Mar 2002 - Jul 2003	Biological Assistant at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Paris, France Microsatellites markers screening by cross-amplification in Starling and Blue tit.

Apr - June 2001

Scientific guide. Parc Zooloqique de Clères, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France

Education

2001 - 2005	Ph. D. with honors in Behavioural Ecology at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France Dissertation title : Sexual selection and honest signalling in the Common peafowl (Pavo cristatus) Supervised by Dr. G. Sorci and Dr. M. Saint Jalme Thesis defence on the 22th June 2005
2000 - 2001	Master’s degree (Grade: B) in Ethology at the Université Paris 13, France
1999 - 2000	Bachelor’s degree (Grade: B) in Ecosystem and Population Biology at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
June 1995	Baccalauréat in Sciences, equivalent to the A level (Grade: A), France

Awards and fellowships

Jun 15- May 17	Marie Skłodowska-Curie – Individual Fellowship, program H2020 (172 k€). PI of the EU project “FreeMi - Using Freshwater organisms to mitigate the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis”
Jan 2007	Post-doctoral Fellowship from the RENECO private compagny (100 k€). PI of the project “Maternal investment in an endangered bird, the houbara bustard”
Apr 04	Award of the best talk, by the ASAB (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour) ASAB Eastern Meeting, Brighton (UK)
Mar 2004	Traveling Fellowship from the Comité National des Sciences Biologiques, Paris
Mar 2004	Traveling Fellowship from the GDR 2155 Ecologie Comportementale, Université de Bourgogne

Institutional responsibilities

Since 2017

Expert member of the CSRPN Occitanie (Scientific Regional Council for Natural Heritage), France

Expert delegate for amphibians
Referee expert for the Natural Reverse of Néouvielle (Pyrenees, France)
More than one expertise per month

2010-2012

Administrative responsible and manager of the amphibian facility Station of Experimental Ecology of the CNRS, Moulis (France)
Agreement for animal experiments and national certificate for amphibian housing and breeding

Reviewing and editing activities

Expert reviewer of funding applications

National Geographic Society
CIFRE doctoral fellowship (France)
Belgium Academy of Science
United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation
Czech Science Foundation (Czech Republic)

Journal editing

Since 2014, editor for Biodiversity and Conservation
Since 2012, editor for Nature Conservation

Article reviewing

I regularly review articles for international scientific journals, including: Ecology Letters, Conservation Letters, Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, Biodiversity and Conservation, BMC Ecology, Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Plos One, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Avian Biology, Ethology, Behavioural Processes, Behaviour, Journal of Wildlife Diseases, Biodiversity Data Journal, Revue Suisse de Zoologie, Amphibia-Reptilia, Journal of Visualized Experiments, Herpetological Conservation and Biology, etc.

Book refereeing

I was the scientific referee for the book of M. Gokhale Joshi, Bosses of the wild: Lessons from the corporate jungle, McGraw Hill Education Ed., 2013

Teaching activities

Sep 2013	Guest Professor in Conservation Biology (Chair of Prof. Yu-Pin Lin). National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 - 2011	Teaching in Conservation Biology (co-responsible for this module) in 2nd year of Master (Master 2) Master “Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution” University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Sep 04 - Sep 06	Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant (ATER) at the University of Angers (France) 100 hours of teaching per year I was responsible for 5 modules Students in Ecology (Faculty of Science) and students in Psychology (Faculty of Letters) Levels: graduate and undergraduate (from 1st year of university to 2nd year of Master) All types of teaching: lectures, courses, and excursions Main teaching: Ethology, Animal and Human Behaviour, Behavioural Ecology, Zoology, Ecology, Conservation Biology, Evolutionary Biogeography, Phylogeny, Taxonomy, Comparative Anatomy
2001 and 2004	Lectures in Conservation Biology and Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Rouen, France Bachelor students
Sep 03 - Jan 04	Temporary teacher in high school (Maître Axilliaire), biology classes, part time, 94 hours, France Pupils from 11 to 18 years old
2001 and 2004	Scientific guide at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) (>40 hours) All age classes (from kindergarden to adults) Zoological Park of Clères, MNHN, Clères, France

Communications

Posters

The RACE project: Risk Assessment of Chytridiomycosis to European Amphibian Biodiversity
Conférences Jacques Monod on Emerging Fungal Diseases, Jun 2011, Roscoff, France
Diseases as stressors: amphibian biodiversity threatened by emerging chytridiomycosis
Stress & Evolution Meeting, Jul 2010, Münster, Germany
Manipulation of maternal investment in a vulnerable species
Le Réveil du Dodo III, Mar 2009, Montpellier, France
Structural colouration of the eyespots correlates with male mating success in the peacock (Pavo cristatus)
International Society for Behavioural Ecology, Jul 2006, Tours, France
Maternal differential allocation in peafowl Pavo cristatus
European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Aug 2005, Krakow, Poland
Multiple sexual advertisements honestly reflect health status in peacocks (Pavo cristatus)
International Society for Behavioural Ecology, Jul 2004, Jyväskylä, Finland

Talks

Head or Tail’ – Impact of biotic environment on functional traits of amphibian larvae (invited)
Conference Functional Ecology and Environment, Jul 2017, Toulouse, France
Chytridiomycosis in the Pyrenees: general review, mitigation
34th GEEFSM (Group for the study of ecopathology of mountain wildlife), Oct 2016, Laruns, France
Zooplankton consumers protect amphibians against Bd in Pyrenean lakes
27th International Congress for Conservation Biology-ECCB, Aug 2015, Montpellier, France
Zooplankton predators protect amphibians against Bd in Pyrenean mountain lakes
Amphibian Conservation Research Symposium, Apr 2015, Cambridge, UK
The role of zooplankton in the dynamics of infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
34th DPG (German Society for Protozoology), Mar 2015, Magdeburg, Germany
Female fruit flies use sophisticated public information to avoid copulating with sperm limited males (invited)
European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Jul 2012, Essen, Germany
Manipulation of maternal investment in the Houbara bustard, a vulnerable species
International Society for Behavioural Ecology, Aug 2008, Ithaca, NY, USA
Male sexual attractiveness affects the allocation of maternal resources into the eggs in peafowl
International Society for Behavioural Ecology, Jul 2006, Tours, France
Multiple sexual advertisements honestly reflect health status in peacocks (Pavo cristatus) (awarded)
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Easter Meeting, Apr 2004, Brighton, UK
Communication sexuelle, signaux multiples et condition dépendance chez le Paon bleu
SFECA (French Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour), Apr 2003, Tours, France

Distribution of research results to the general public

I consider communication with the general public as full part of my research work. I regularly interact with the general public when I am in the field and also during cultural and scientific events.

Flyers created for the general public

“What we do against chytridiomycosis for the amphibians of the Pyrenees and elsewhere” (French, English and German)

Articles written for the general public

Loyau A & Schmeller DS. 2010. Heiße Parade im Wüstensand. Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Oct, pp18-20
Loyau A. 2004. Le Paon, une espèce fondamentale au Parc Zoologique de Clères. La lettre de la SECAS 39:6

Courtois E., Loyau A. , Schmeller, D.S. (2011) : Les NACs, précautions à prendre pour limiter les risques de propagations des maladies émergentes« exotiques. Semaine Veterinaire 1471: 46

Participation to cultural and scientific events

Oct 2015	Conference on light pollution for The day of the Night, Ariège, France
Nov 2010	Interview and meeting with the public at the Research Festival La Novela, Toulouse, France
Jul 2010	Collaboration with a novelist, Hélène Duffau, to write a short story Vous avez dit Euprocte? Published in the books Douze chercheurs en quête d’auteur (Loubatières Ed., 2011)
Jun 2010	Interview for a documentary produced by BiodivERsA to promote research
Jan and Nov 2010	Public seminar at the Public Meeting of the Human-Environment Observatory of Haut Vicdessos, Auzat, France
2009 and 2010	I had posters the Festival of Science (La Fête de la Science), Foix, France

Participation to the education of school teachers to promote conservation biology and research

May 2015 Mission « Teachers in the lab », teaching and discussions with around 20 school teachers, EcoLab, Toulouse, France

Interventions in schools to promote conservation biology and research to children

Jan and May 2011 Junior high school Stendhal (Collège Stendhal), Toulouse, France
Jun 2012 Primary school of Auzat, France

Communication through medias and press coverage

Jul 2013, Interview for a documentary on amphibians and chytridiomycosis for the channel ARTE
Mai 2010, Interview during more than 1 hour for a radio program Radio Mon Païs, Toulouse, France

I also disseminate my research results to the public thanks to the media. Results of my research on chytridiomycosis and animal behaviour (peacocks, drosophila, and houbara bustard) have received considerable attention by newspapers (Die Zeit, Leipziger Volkszeitung , Sächsische Zeitung, Esslinger Zeitung), magazines (e.g. National Geographic, Scientific American, The New Scientist, Discovery magazine, Science et Vie Junior, Spektrum der Wissenschaft), scientific blogs (e.g. Science daily, Science News, Eurek Alert, New Scientist.com, BBC), as well as books written for the public (e.g. F. Flam, The score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man, Avery Ed., 2008; P. Ackermann, Masculins singuliers: enquête sur la nouvelle identité des hommes, Laffont Ed., 2009; B. Natterson Horowitz & K. Bowers, Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human, Ebury Ed., 2012; R. Pookottil, Beem: Biological Emergence-Based Evolutionary, Fossil Fish Ed., 2013). I also contribute regular to the blog of P³ to reach out to the general public and students.