Adjunct Lecturer/Researcher (ATER)

paul.saunders[at]cefe.cnrs.fr

paul.saunders[at]umontpellier.fr

My research focuses on the evolution of sex chromosomes and sex determining systems. Main collaborator: Aline Muyle.

I do teaching (half-time) at the University of Montpellier, mostly to undergrad students (Ecology/Molecular evolution/Biostatistics etc).

Address 

CEFE/CNRS – Ground Floor – Wing B – Office 2
Campus du CNRS
1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier 5

Brief CV

Research

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=thnVzOEAAAAJ&hl=fr

• 2024-2025 ATER - Université de Montpellier / CEFE (FR)
• 2021-2024 Postdoc – University of Tasmania (AUS)
• 2018-2021 Postdoc – Université de Montpellier / ISEM (FR)
• 2016-2018 Postdoc – Université de Lausanne (CH)
• 2012-2015 PhD – Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (FR)

Supervision

• 2021-2025 – Co-supervision of a PhD Student – Carles Ferre Ortega – University of Tasmania
• 2020 – Co-supervision of a Masters student (MEME European program for Evolutionary Biology) – Niccole Porras
• 2014 - Co-supervision of a Masters student (BEE Montpellier) – Thomas Franco

Teaching

• 2024-2025 – Université de Montpellier – 192h – Practicals and tutorials (Bachelor degree): Intro to Ecology, Genetics, Biostatistics, molecular evolution etc
• 2016-2018 – Université de Lausanne – Approx 150h – Practicals and tutorials (Bachelors and Masters): Population genetics, molecular genomics, evolutionary genomics etc
• 2013-2015 – Université de Montpellier – 192h - Practicals and tutorials (Bachelor degree): Population genetics, animals and plants development and reproduction etc