Research.

​​Cephalopods and humans independently evolved camera-like eyes, a high-pressure cardiovascular system and a complex nervous system. This evolutionary convergence makes cephalopods an ideal comparative model to vertebrates for understanding the complexity of their systems.

​​As a researcher, I am interested in cephalopod novel and convergent traits, and more particularly in the evolutionary processes behind their complex neural system and behaviour.
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Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) swimming over a model of a human brain (Laurent Department).

I graduated with a Master’s Degree in Marine Ecology and Organismal Biology at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. As a requirement for my graduation I did a 5-month internship in the Edsinger Lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory, USA, working on the development of genetic tools in Pygmy Squid (Idiosepius paradoxus​).

​Now, I am PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany, in Laurent Department, which focuses on the behaviour, dynamics and emergent properties of neural systems