I am a theoretical evolutionary biologist, broadly interested in plant evolution. During my PhD in the University of Lille (France), I worked on mathematical and computational models to study the link between life-history, mating system and mutation load in flowering plants. As a postdoc in the labs of Prof. Charles Mullon and Prof. John Pannell, I am working on the evolution of plant sexual systems, with a particular focus on the transition from hermaphroditism, where individuals express male and female sexual functions, to dioecy, where individuals are unisexual.
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2012-2015: Bachelor in population and organismal biology - University of Lille, France
2015-2017: Master of Science in evolutionary ecology - University of Lille, France
2017-2021: PhD in the Evo-Eco-Paleo (EEP) Lab, University of Lille/CNRS, France
2021-Present: Postdoc in the Pannell and Mullon groups at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Lesaffre, T., & Billiard, S. (2020). The joint evolution of lifespan and self‐fertilization. Journal of evolutionary biology, 33(1), 41-56.
Lesaffre, T., & Billiard, S. (2021). On deleterious mutations in perennials: inbreeding depression, mutation load, and life-history evolution. The American Naturalist, 197(5), E143-E155.
Lesaffre, T. (2021). Population-level consequences of inheritable somatic mutations and the evolution of mutation rates in plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1958), 20211127.
