Etienne Maxime Michel François Marie Danchin#
Membership Number: | 3237 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
Elected: | 2012 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Homepage(s): | http://www.edanchin.fr |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 to 2021 Head with Dominique Roby of the LabEX TULIP (Towards a Unified Theory of biotic interactions; the role of environmental perturbations). 5 labs all ranked A+, 400 Staff, 9 M€ over ten years
- 2011-2015 Head of the Laboratory EDB (100 staff)
- 2007-2011 Building of a 7 M€ fund to refurbish a building for 250 staff members on the University Paul Sabatier campus
- 1990-2000 Head of a scientific team of research in the Laboratory of Ecology in Paris. Over 15 permanent staff
- 1982 CNRS Fellow Currently Director of Research, Class 1, at the CNRS
Fields of Scholarship
- Behavioural ecology
- Information in biology in general, and ecology and evolution in particular
- Role of social information in breeding habitat decision (habitat selection)
- Emergence of breeding coloniality
- Importance of nongenetic inheritance in evolution
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Academia Europaea