After receiving her Ph.D at Oxford Brookes University – UK, she founded the Sifaka Conservation programme aiming at protecting the remaining crowned sifaka populations in small and fragmented forests by establishing the metapopulation management approach. She is currently leading the Environment Department at Ambatovy Company, and is also giving lectures at the University of Antananarivo, department of Anthropology and Sustainable Development. Her interests include applied ecology for conservation management and decision-making processes, Sustainable development for the benefit of biodiversity Conservation. She also believes that practical environmental education would make big differences in the long-term community development and biodiversity conservation.

Après ma soutenance de Thèse de Doctorat en Biologie Animale sur la phylogénétique des lémuriens-Indriidae, à L'Université de Strasbourg en 1997, j'ai travaillé pendant 8ans, au Centre National de Recherches Appliquées au Développement Rural (FOFIFA). Depuis 2006, je suis Maître de Conférences à l'Université d'Antananarivo, à la Faculté des Sciences et à la Faculté de Médecine au Département des Sciences et Médecine Vétérinaire.

Domaines d’expertise: Génétique; Immunogénétique; Ecologie comportementale; Endocrinologie

Espèces étudiées: Propithecus, Indri, Eulemur, Lepilemur

My research is focused on the origin and evolutionary history of Madagascar’s modern fauna, one of the most unique and endemic on the planet. How, when, and from where they arrived has remained largely unknown due to a 65-million-year gap in the fossil record that occurs precisely within the time period during which the modern vertebrate groups are hypothesized to have colonized the island. My research has sought to fill in this “gap” in a number of different ways. I also continue to collaborate with colleagues on projects examining dental development, life history, anatomy and growth in both living and subfossil lemurs. These collaborations have examined life history variation in extant and extinct primates (including electron microscopy and ontogenetic studies of dental eruption and root formation), and collected data from captures of wild lemurs to characterize their growth and health in pristine forest and disturbed fragments.

Domaines d’expertise/Area of expertise:  Subfossil lemurs, Lemur growth and dental development, Lemur life history

Espèces étudiées / Species: Propithecus diadema