Dr
AUDREY DUSSUTOUR
43 years old, Birth:
31/12/1977
Nationality: french
- CNRS Director of Research
(Toulouse, FRANCE)
- Co-Head
of the team
IVEP (UMR 5169 CRCA)
- Associate Editor: Journal
of Animal Ecology, Scientific
Reports, Swarm Intelligence.
-
Member of the National Committee for Scientific Research,
Section 26 : Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
(2012-2021)
- Member of the National Committee for Scientific Research,
interdisciplinary commission : CID 51: Modelling and
analysis of data in biological systems: computational ,
mathematical and physical approaches. (2012-2016)
- Honorary Research
Affiliate : School of Biological Sciences (2009-2012) (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
- Invited Professor : Free
University of Brussels (2011-2012) (Brussels,
BELGIUM)
AWARDS:
Aldolphe Wetrems
award 2011 of the Belgian Royal Academy. This
price, created in 1926, is granted every year to a European
scientist rewarding a recent significant discovery or
invention in physics, mathematics or natural sciences.
SFECA PRIZE 2009
: Recipient of the young investigator
award
of the French Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour (SFECA).
The award was given at the 31st
International Ethological Conference held in Rennes,
France in August 2009 and followed by a talk on Ants
Nutrition.
JEB PRIZE 2008: Outstanding
Paper
Prize
from
the
Journal of Experimental
Biology.
This international prize is awarded by the journal's editors
to a scientist for their contribution to an
exceptional research paper.
LE Monde PRIZE 2007: Lauréate
du Prix Le Monde de la Recherche 2007
SFECA Young
Researcher Prize 2002
Awarded the "Young Researcher Prize" for an oral
presentation at the annual congress of the Société Française
pour l'Etude du Comportement Animal (April 2002)
GRANTS:
ANR
2018-2021 : SMARTCELL (PI)
ANR
2012-2015
: NUTRIANT
(PI)
FYSSEN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP 2010: NUTRITIONAL DYNAMICS: FROM UNICELLULAR
TO INDIVIDUALS TO COLONIES
ARC GRANT 2009-2011: Adaptiveness
of Self-organized Collective Decision Making
FELLOWSHIPS:
USYD POST-DOCTORAL
FELLOWSHIP 2006-2009 Post doctoral
position at the University of Sydney Financed by a fellowship
from The University of Sydney (04/2006- 04/2009)
SINGER POLIGNAC POST-DOCTORALFELLOWSHIP
2006 Post doctoral position at the University of
Concordia (CANADA) financed by a fellow ship from the
fundation Singer Polignac (01/2005- 03/2006)
FYSSEN POST-DOCTORAL
FELLOWSHIP 2005
Post doctoral position at the University of Concordia (CANADA)
financed by a fellow ship from the fundation Fyssen (01/2005-
12/2005)
PhD financed by a grant from
the French Ministry of Research and Education
(2001-2004)
Collaboration France-Belgium financed by a grant from the French Ministry of
Research and Education (2002-2004)
ISBE Congress financed by a grant
from the National Comity of Biological Sciences.
(2004)
TEACHING:
Teaching in Master neurosciences, Animal
cognition and Animal behavior (2009-2016)
Teaching assistant ship in Entomology
at the University of Sydney (2006-2009)
Teaching assistantship in Neurosciences, Animal behaviour
and Evolution (2001-2004)
EDUCATION:
HDR 2018 University Paul
Sabatier Toulouse, France
Post-doc
2006-2009 Post doctoral
Position at the University of Sydney (Australia)
Research supervised by Pr
Steve Simspon (Behavior
and
Physiology research Lab) and Dr
Madeleine Beekman (Behavior and Genetics of
Social Insect Lab)
Subject : Collective decision in ants. (From individual
nutrition to collective decision)
2005-2006
Post doctoral Position at Concordia University (Canada)
Research supervised by Dr
Emma Despland
Subject : Collective decision in Social caterpillars
PhD 2001-2004
Ph.
D. in Animal Behaviour (with honor) realized in
collaboration with two laboratories:
- Centre for Research in
Animal Cognition University Paul Sabatier Toulouse,
France (Ph. D. supervisor Pr Vincent Fourcassié)
- Centre for
Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems at the Free
University of Brussels, Belgium (Ph. D. supervisor Pr
Jean-Louis Deneubourg)
Subject: Spatio teamporal organization of collective
displacement in ants
MASTER
2001
Master’s in Neurosciences and Ethology with honor.
Research supervised by Pr Jean-Louis Deneubourg Center for
Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems at the Free University
of Brussels (Belgium)
Subject: traffic congestion on recruitment trails in the ant
Lasius niger.
2000 Master’s in Ecology with honor.
Research supervised by Pr Raymond Campan (June to September
2000). Laboratoire d'Ethologie et Cognition Animale,
University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France)
Subject: Shape discrimination and generalisation in Apis
mellifera.
Bachelor of Science 1998
Licence "Biologie des
Populations et des Ecosystèmes" equivalent to an American
bachelor of science. Speciality: (Animal biology) with honors
Baccalauréat 1995
French equivalent to the
higher leaving certificate : baccalaureate S (maths, biology
and physics) with honors
