Our People

Principal investigators

Professor in Ruminant Medicine and Health Management

Mattias Delpont

Researcher/clinician in poultry biosecurity and health management

Lisa Fourtune

Data scientist

Researcher in spatial and molecular epidemiology of animal infectious diseases

Professor in Epidemiology and Avian Population Medicine​

Associate professor in Veterinary Public Health

Post-docs, PhD students, and Research engineers

Philippe Brauneisen

PhD student

The diversity of French poultry production as a tool for HPAI management

Lorraine Chapot

PhD student

Understanding animal health information dynamics to improve prevention and response to crises in the poultry sector

Manon Couty

PhD student

Phylodynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds in France

Clara Delecroix

Post-doc

Modelling approaches to find optimal combinations of surveillance and intervention strategies to manage infectious diseases of livestock

Youness Eddaa

Research engineer

Modeling hemorrhagic disease virus impact on cattle and sheep production

Diletta Fornasiero

PhD student

Phylodynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry in Italy

Brandon Hayes

Post-doc

Informing avian influenza biosecurity policy through mathematical modelling

Rebecca Hibbard

PhD student

Use of surveillance tools for improved antimicrobial stewardship in poultry production

Sébastien Lambert

Post-doc

​Modelling infectious disease transmission in livestock to provide policy support

Ina Li

PhD student

Phylodynamics of avian influenza viruses in poultry-vaccinated contexts

​Bastien Malinge

PhD student

Surveillance of avian influenza viruses in live bird markets in Cambodia

​Sophie Planchand

PhD student

Elucidating on-farm transmission dynamics and optimizing management of HPAI

Sarah Pletts

PhD student

Impact of poultry vaccination strategies against highly pathogenic avian influenza

Oksana Saccavini

Research engineer

Qualitative research on biosecurity for poultry farming in local food systems

Amélie Solarino

Research engineer

Qualitative research on farmers implementing regulations on biosecurity

Sara Zufan

Post-doc

Phylodynamics of avian influenza viruses in live bird market networks in Cambodia

Alumni

Jun-Sik Lim

PhD student

2021 – 2024

​Transmission dynamics of African swine fever in the Republic of Korea

Jérémy Lesueur

PhD student

2019 – 2023

​Characterising dairy cattle health using multicriteria approaches

Sebastian Moya

Post-doc

2021 – 2023

​Psychosocial factors in antimicrobial usage in poultry and swine systems

Luis Salazar

Research engineer

2021 – 2022

Luis is now a PhD student at the University of Calgary, researching disease dynamics among pigs at the domestic-wildlife interface

Billy Bauzile

PhD student

2019 – 2022

Billy is now a post-doc at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute conducting malaria modelling in Haiti

Vaihirau Costes-Ori

Research engineer

2021 – 2022

Debapriyo Chakraborty

Post-doc

2020 – 2022

Phylodynamics of avian influenza viruses

Debo is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement under Dr. Benjamin Roche, working on the phylodynamics of SARS-Cov-2 in Mexico

Claire Guinat

Post-doc

2017 – 2020

Quantitative epidemiology of highly pathogenic avian influenza

Marie-Noël Chanthavong ​

Research assistant

2019 – 2020

Maud Yakovleff

Research assistant

2019 – 2020

Yoann Mathevon

PhD student

2016 – 2018

Cécile Adam

PhD student

2015 – 2017

Cécile now works at the general directorate for food at the French Ministry of Agriculture