Jean Clobert#
University training
- Graduate in Zoology, Septembre 1975; with great distinction, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- Phd in Zoological Sciences, April 1981, with the Greatest Distinction, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
PhD and post-doc supervision
Has supervised 32 PhD theses and 19 post-docs on subjects ranking from theoretical ecology to ecophysiology to genetic ecology. From these students, 30 end up in research agencies or Universities in France or in other countries.
Invited talks
In the last 5 years invitations to give talks in Sweden (2), Switzerland, Germany, USA (2), Belgium, Spain, Norway, Holland and England.
The metatron project
In 2010-2011, construction of a large experimental infrastructure,the metatron (http://www.cnrs.fr/fetedelascience/spip.php?article427
) . This infrastructure
is a set of 48 connected enclosures to study replicated meta-ecosystems
in a changing environment.
Major editioral membership
- 1996-onwards: Editorial board Journal of Animal Ecology (IF 3.7)
- 2005-onwards: Editorial board Ecology Letter (IF 10.14)
National and International responsabilties
- 1997-2006: Head of the Laboratory «Functionning and Evolution of Ecological Systems», Pierre et Marie Curie University and École Normale Superieure, Paris, France
- 2007-onwards: Head of the CNRS Experimental Ecology Research Station, Moulis, France
- 2009-onwards: Vice president of the French Ecologist Association (SFE)
- 2011-onwards: Joint director of the Research Federation "Biological Interactions" (500 scientists) in Toulouse
- 2010-onwards: Coordinator of the National Experimental Ecology Research Stations (ReNSEE)
- 2003: evaluation comittee of scientific proposals for exceptional investments in ex-centered canadian Universities
- 2009: Member (5) of the evalation comittee for Natural Sciences of the CSIC (Spanish National Research Center ).
- 2011: Member of the hiring selection committee for the FNRS in Natural Sciences
Major Grants
- 2005: 3.5millions euros for building a experimental research Station in Foljuif
- 2008: 6.4millions euros for building an experimental research sation in Moulis (Toulouse)
- current grants: DIAME Dispersal and Metapopulation, French ANR, 180k€,coordinator, (2008-10); SCALES-Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative and Ecological Scales, FP7, 125k€ (2008-2014); TenLamas, The value of Ecological Networks , Biodiversa ERANET, 162k € (2009-2011) MOBIGEN, The genetic of movement, French ANR 450ke (2010-15)
