Professional Preparation

Current:

        senior staff scientist, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin
        lecturer in statistics, Freie University, Berlin

    2011-2012: Marie Curie EURIAS junior research fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

    2010-2011: Kone Fundation Postdoctoral fellowship, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield

    2006­-2009: Ph.D in Evolutionary Biology, ISEM, University of Montpellier II, thesis: "Mate choice" (defended: 16th december 2009)

 

Selected Publications


Rousset F, Gouy A, Martinez-Almoyna C & Courtiol A (2017).The summary likelihood method and its implementation in the Infusion package. Molecular Ecology Resources

Courtiol A, Etienne L, Feron R, Godelle B & Rousset F (2016). The evolution of mutual mate choice under direct benefits. The American Naturalist

Courtiol A, Tropf FC & Mills MC (2016). When genes and environment disagree: making sense of trends in recent human evolution. PNAS

Niedballa J, Sollmann R, Courtiol A & Wilting A (2016). camtrapR: an R package for efficient camera trap data management. Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Wilting A, Courtiol A, Christiansen P, Niedballa J, Scharf AK, Orlando L, Balkenhol N, Hofer H, Kramer-Schadt S, Fickel J & Kitchener AC (2015). Planning tiger recovery: understanding intraspecific variation for effective conservation. Science Advances

Sommer S, Courtiol A & Mazzoni C (2013). MHC genotyping of non-model organisms using next-generation sequencing: a new methodology to deal with artefacts and allelic dropout. BMC Genomics

Courtiol A, Rickard IJ, Lummaa V, Prentice A, Fulford A & Stearns SC (2013). The demographic transition influences variance in fitness and selection on height and BMI in rural Gambia. Current Biology

Courtiol A, Pettay JE, Jokela M, Rotkirch A & Lummaa V (2012). Natural and sexual selection in a monogamous historical human population. PNAS

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R packages

He is involved in the development of several R packages, including:

•    IsoriX: a package dedicated to building isotopic landscapes

•    spaMM: a package dedicated to fitting Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Models

•    camtrapR: a package dedicated to the handling of camera trap data