About me
You reached my personal page! You will find here an overview of my projects, both within and outside science.
I am always curious about the natural world, and a quantitative ecologist by training. I have been lucky to work with many organisms, ranging from plants to birds, and in many different natural settings, both on land and in the sea. I try to share this experience with others, and synthesize it into useful knowledge to help us understand how natural systems are changing.
Research
I am currently a researcher at LISC, France. While my research interests span a broad variety of topics within the realm of ecology, my recent work is focused on exploring how ecological interactions shape the response of ecosystems to perturbations. My methods include mathematical modelling, data analysis, and going outdoors to measure things. I develop new approaches and scientific software to speed up the application of theoretical ideas to real ecosystems, and hopefully improve the way we interact with natural systems, big and small.
Select projects:
Using a combination of ecological modelling, empirical surveys and analyses of spatial patterns, we investigate how measuring the current spatial structure of reefs can help us forecast their future (Génin et al. 2024).
I contribute to developing indicators of ecosystem degradation based on their stability properties and spatial structure, using (e.g.) aerial images. I created and update regularly an R package, spatialwarnings to compute these indicators in real and model ecological systems (see Génin et al. 2018).
I try to understand the lasting impacts of human perturbations on the organization of grasslands. This is done through plant surveys (Lee et al., 2017, Génin et al. 2020), often involving the measurement of fine-scale spatial structure (Génin et al. 2026?)
Nature and Photography
As many ecologists, I am fond of wildlife, which makes me embark on various nature-related adventures.
Poids-plume (Featherweight in french) is a collaborative experiment, based on Raspberry-pi-powered feeders that weigh and take videos of birds (and other visitors!). Feel free to visit our home page. Please contact us if you would like to join the experiment!
I am an enthusiastic although occasional photographer. I maintain here a regular blog with pictures from travels, field work or just daily walks. Whatever comes, really !