Eco-epidemiology researcher/engineer with a particular interest in the evolution of infectious diseases.
Work history
Assistant engineer
10/2025 - 09/2026 LBBE, Villeurbanne, France
Developing a spatialized individual-based model to understand the dynamics of the African Swine fever and the possible effect of vaccine strategies in a wild boar population.
PhD Student
10/2021 - 09/2024 LBBE, Villeurbanne, France
Working on the evolution of diphtheria and pertussis under vaccine pressure by the mean of mathematical modeling, numerical simulations and statistical analyzes.
Master degree internship
01/2021 - 06/2021 LBBE, Villeurbanne, France
Developing a SIR-like model to study how toxoid vaccines could select for toxin-deficient strains.
Bachelor degree internship
06/2019 LEHNA, Villeurbanne, France
Developing a database of amphibian dispersal distances and morphological traits.
Education
Doctoral degree Eco-Epidemiology
10/2021 - 12/2024 University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
University Degree Evolutionary Biology & Medicine
10/2021 - 09/2022 University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Master of Science Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
09/2019 - 06/2021 University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Bachelor of Science Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
09/2016 - 06/2021 University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Skills
Certifications
CNU Qualification
2026
Sections 26 (Applied mathematics) & 67 (Population biology and ecology).
TOIEC Listening and reading test
2021
Scored 980/990.
Achievements, honours and awards
3-years grant for funding a thesis
2021 E2M2 doctoral school
Conferences and presentations
Rencontres du GdR Phylodynamique
2023 Villeurbanne, France
13th International Bordetella Symposium
2022 Vancouver, Canada
EvoLyon
2021 Lyon, France
Science popularization
Fête de la science
2021, 2024, 2025 Villeurbanne/Lyon, France
Animation of workshops (health quiz, population dynamics game) and presentation of my thesis project.
Peer reviewing
Translational pediatrics
1 article
Publications
Comparing frequentist and Bayesian methods to identify drivers of pathogen strain invasion: A temporal case study of pertussis in the United States
Lecorvaisier F., Pontier D., Sauvage F. and Fouchet D.
2026 Infectious Disease Modelling, vol. 11, n°2, pp. 389-406
Etude sur la compétition intra-spécifique entre souches bactérienne dans le contexte de la vaccination de masse : approches théorique et statistique
Impact de la vaccination sur l’évolution de Bordetella pertussis
Using a dynamical model to study the impact of a toxoid vaccine on the evolution of a bacterium: The example of diphtheria
Lecorvaisier F., Pontier D., Soubeyrand B. and Fouchet D.
2024 Ecological Modelling, vol. 487, pp. 110569