SOPHIE QUÉROUIL’S HOMEPAGE


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PRESENT POSITION

Arowana, Scleropages legendrei


© Pouyaud et al. (2003)
Full-time researcher at the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD)

UR175 - CAVIAR
361 rue Jean François Breton, BP5095
34196 Montpellier Cedex 5, FRANCE
Tél : +33 (0)4.67.04.63.36 / Fax : +33 (0)4.67.16.64.40

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Forest elephant with her offspring


© S. Gatti
  • Evolutionary biology :
    Population genetics, phylogeography, biogeography, phylogeny

  • Behavioural ecology :
    Ecology, dispersal, interspecific relationships, social behaviour

PRESENT RESEARCH

Arapaima: the giant of the Amazon


© J. Nuñez
  • Population genetics of freshwater fishes with a potential for aquaculture: influence of eco-ethological and anthropological factors.

  • Comparison of the population structure of Osteoglossiform fishes from Amazonia (Arapaima gigas, Osteoglossum biccirrhosum) and Indonesia (Scleropages spp.).

POST-DOCTORATE

Açores Post-doctoral fellow of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) from January 2002 to December 2006:
  • at IMAR - Instituto do Mar da Universidade dos Açores
    DOP - Departamento de Oceanografia e Pescas
    Cais Santa Cruz - Angustias
    9901-862 Horta - PORTUGAL
    Tél : (+351) 292 200 400 / Fax : (+351) 292 200 411

  • and INETI
    Departamento de Biotecnologia, Edificio E, 1º andar
    Estrada do Paço do Lumiar, 22
    1649-038 Lisboa - PORTUGAL
    Tél : (+351) 210 924 735 / Fax : (+351) 217 163 636

  • Coordination of the project GOLFINICHO "Ecological niche segregation between two species of dolphins in the Azores and Madeira".

  • Participation in the projects CETAMARH (social organization and population genetics of the bottlenose dolphin and the sperm whale around the Azores) and MACETUS  (population genetics of four species of cetaceans in the Macaronesian archipelagos - Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands).


French version ©Sophie Quérouil

28/10/2007