My research focuses primarily on methodological developments in population genetics concerning the inference of demographic and historical parameters from genetic data in natural and agronomic populations. I am particularly interested in demographic processes at small geographical and temporal scales, i.e. local and current or relatively recent, notably the estimation of dispersal characteristics and densities at the landscape scale. Having worked on inferences using F-statistics, then maximum likelihood, we are currently focusing on the use of simulation-based inference methods that allow us to consider models more relevant at these fine scales, for example with small (sub-)population sizes (or no sub-populations at all for distance-based isolation models in continuous habitats with one individual per network node). More recently, I have begun to take an interest in adaptive processes through the inference of adaptive introgression processes.

Keywords: population genetics/genomics, statistical inference, demographic history, dispersal, continuous habitat, subpopulation, simulation-based inference.