Head of Group
Unit: Environmental Sensing and Modelling
Group: Biodiversity Monitoring and Assessment
Social links: LinkedIn / ResearchGate / ORCID
Languages: French, English
I am an established researcher in ecological science and technology with proven track record and hands-on experience in project (portfolio) management, team leadership, coordination, supervision and university teaching. Along my professional pathway, I have been highly motivated to push the state of the art in ecological monitoring to improve our knowledge and understanding of the state of biodiversity in a changing world. My main research lines include (1) understanding and predicting the impacts of global environmental change on ecosystems and biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales, (2) combining and analyzing structured and unstructured biodiversity and environmental datasets to improve our understanding of biodiversity dynamics under changing environmental conditions, (3) evaluating the roles played by different factors in driving changes in the state of biodiversity across scales, and (4) communicating scientific evidence and knowledge gaps on biodiversity to policymakers and stakeholders.
The Biodiversity Monitoring and Assessment group is a multi-talented team of researchers, engineers and technicians innovating the way data is collected in the field to evaluate the spatial and temporal dynamics of living organisms in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. As a national hub at the interface between the scientific community and decision/policy makers in Luxembourg, the group is developing and using cutting-edge technologies to strengthen knowledge and competences on biodiversity monitoring across the country. As head of the group, my main duties focus on team leadership and coordination, administrative and financial management of the team's activities, and engagement in strategic national and international initiatives and networks on ecological monitoring.
EU Grassland Butterfly Index 1991-2023 Technical report
<p>Chris A.M. Van Swaay, Reto Schmucki, David B. Roy, Emily B. Dennis, Sue Collins, Richard Fox, Zdravko D. Kolev, Cristina G. Sevilleja, Martin S. Warren, Aidan Whitfield, Irma Wynhoff, Harriet J.H. Arnberg, Maksims Balalaikins, José M. Barea-Azcón, Andreas M.B. Boe, Simona Bonelli, Marc S. Botham, Nigel A.D. Bourn, Juan P. Cancela, Roger Caritg, Leonardo Dapporto, André Ducry, Goran Dušej, Mathieu de Flores, Claude Dopagne, Ruth Escobés, Anne E. Eskildsen, Zdenek F. Fric, José M. Fernández-García, Benoît Fontaine, Primož Glogovčan, Jostein Gohli, Ana Gracianteparaluceta, Andrea Grill, Alexandre Harpke, Colin Harrower, Janne K. Heliölä, Toke T. Høye, Michelle Judge, Vassiliki Kati, Harald W. Krenn, Elizabeth Kühn, Mikko Kuussaari, Andreas Lang, Daniela Lehner, Liam Lysaght, Dirk Maes, Denise McGowan, Yolanda Melero, Xavier Mestdagh, Ian Middlebrook, Yeray Monasterio, Eva Monteiro, Aitor Montes, Miguel López Munguira, Martin Musche, Francisco J. Olivares, Ozge Ozden, Clara Pladevall, Alois Pavličko, Lars B. Pettersson, Laszlo Rákosy, Tobias Roth, Johannes Rüdisser, Martina Šašić, Stefano Scalercio, Manfred Schönwälder, Josef Settele, Izabela Sielezniew, Marcin Sielezniew, Gaëlle Sobczyk-Moran, Constanti Stefanescu, Giedrius Švitra, András Svabadfalvi, Anu Tiitsaar, Nicolas Titeux, Elli Tzirkalli, Olga Tzortzakaki, Andreu UbachPermanyer, Eglė Vičiuvienė, Sarah Vray, Konstantina Zografou</p>
<p>Butterfly Conservation Europe</p>
Déclin de la grenouille rousse (Rana temporaria) au Luxembourg sur la période 2010-2023
<p>Degraeve T.; Mestdagh X.; L'Hoste L.; Titeux N.</p>
<p>Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois</p>
A new underwater camera trap for freshwater wildlife monitoring
L'Hoste L., Mestdagh X., Besnard A., Didry Y., Foucteau M., Gama A., Haas R., Minette F., Priol P., Schwartz R., Titeux N.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 16, n° 8, pp. 1625-1635, 2025
Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050
Pereira H.M., Martins I.S., Rosa I.M.D., Kim H.J., Leadley P., Popp A., van Vuuren D.P., Hurtt G., Quoss L., Arneth A., Baisero D., Bakkenes M., Chaplin-Kramer R., Chini L., Di Marco M., Ferrier S., Fujimori S., Guerra C.A., Harfoot M., Harwood T.D., Hasegawa T., Haverd V., Havlík P., Hellweg S., Hilbers J.P., Hill S.L.L., Hirata A., Hoskins A.J., Humpenöder F., Janse J.H., Jetz W., Johnson J.A., Krause A., Leclère D., Matsui T., Meijer J.R., Merow C., Obersteiner M., Ohashi H., De Palma A., Poulter B., Purvis A., Quesada B., Rondinini C., Schipper A.M., Settele J., Sharp R., Stehfest E., Strassburg B.B.N., Takahashi K., Talluto M.V., Thuiller W., Titeux N., Visconti P., Ware C., Wolf F., Alkemade R.
Science, vol. 384, n° 6694, pp. 458-465, 2024
