Dr Anne Charmantier MSc, PhD

Anne Charmantier is an evolutionary biologist working for the CNRS in Montpellier, France. She studied ecology and evolution in Montpellier (PhD in 2003) and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the Edward Grey Institute in Oxford while being a Fellow at Wolfson College. Her primary research interests are in understanding between-individual variation of life-history and behavioural traits in natural populations. She studies the evolutionary mechanisms underlying variation in these characters, with a special focus on the role of environmental degradation. This degradation can be internal, (the decrease of individual fitness with age due to senescence); or external, (changes in the environment, including those induced by man). She conducts analyses based on long-term datasets collected in wild bird populations, in particular blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) and mute swans (Cygnus olor).

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