{"id":1621,"date":"2026-10-05T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/?page_id=1621"},"modified":"2026-10-05T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:28:10","slug":"dr-agathe-puissant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/dr-agathe-puissant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Agathe Puissant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I joined the group in October 2026 as a postdoctoral researcher. I am broadly interested in the ecological drivers of complex trait evolution across large scales, as well as in what drives the coevolution or modularity of suites of traits.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I did my PhD at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, where I studied how local ecological interactions impact the diversification of colour patterns and wing shapes in swallowtail butterflies (Papilionidae) at the macroevolutionary scale, using phylogenetic comparative methods and computer vision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am now investigating how environmental constraints shape the evolution and distribution of social traits in ants. Specifically, I\u2019m interested in testing for evolutionary associations between social trait syndromes and macro- and microclimatic niches using comparative approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact : Agathe.Puissant@unil.ch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biophore, office 3112<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2026 \u2013 present<\/td>Postdoctoral researcher in the Bertelsmeier Lab, University of Lausanne
\u2022 Biogeography and macroevolution of social traits in ants<\/td><\/tr>
2025 \u2013 2026<\/td>Research engineer, National Museum of Natural History, Paris
\u2022 Deep learning model on ladybird photographs to improve species identification keys<\/td><\/tr>
2021 \u2013 2025<\/td>PhD in Evolutionary Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Paris \/ Coll\u00e8ge de France, supervised by Violaine Llaurens
\u2022 Effect of ecological interactions on phenotypic diversification in Papilionidae butterflies, at the macroevolutionary scale<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>Assistant engineer, \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Paris (IBENS)
\u2022 Evolution of multicellularity: lab culture of Dictyostelium discoideum<\/em> and machine learning on simulated data<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>Engineering degree (life sciences and data science), AgroParisTech, Paris
\u2022 Machine learning to reconstruct phytoplankton pigment distributions from satellite data (internship, LOCEAN)<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>MSc in Ecology and Evolution, Universit\u00e9 Lyon 1
\u2022 Computational biology of social evolution: individual-based simulations of cheating and kinship (internship, University of Oxford, West lab)<\/td><\/tr>
2018<\/td>Research internship, National Museum of Natural History, Paris (ISYEB)
\u2022 Evolution of dorsal wing patterns in three Morpho<\/em> butterfly subspecies: photographic database, image analysis and statistics in R<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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