Principal investigator (prof.) Timothée studies biodiversity loss and disease emergence with a combination of machine learning, mathematical modeling, and computer simulations. He teaches data science for biodiversity, population dynamics, and simulation for complex biological systems.

Ph.D. Since Mar 2024 Signatures of viral pathogenenis in high-dimensional datasets
Advisor: Amandine Gamble

B.Sc. intern Since Sep 2025 Implementation of landscape fragmentation measures in Julia
Co-advisor: Michael Catchen

Ph.D. Since May 2023 Large-scale modeling of land-use change to support conservation policy-making
Co-advisor: Maria-Cecilia Londono

Post-doctoral researcher Since Oct 2024 Data and model integration for the surveillance of rabies

Post-doctoral researcher Since Mar 2025 Indicators and essential variables for One Health and biodiversity monitoring

Ph.D. Sep 2020 to Dec 2024 A maximum entropy theory for food web structure
Co-advisor: Dominique Gravel

Ph.D. Since Sep 2021 Reconstruction and monitoring of food web structure across space
Co-advisor: Ceres Barros

M.Sc. Sep 2019 to Jun 2021 Development of beta-diversity measures for spatially continuous hotspot identification
Co-advisor: Pierre Legendre

Ph.D. Since Jun 2022 Machine learning for the upscaling of field observation of plant functional traits
Co-advisor: Natalia Norden

Since Jan 2025 M.Sc.
Advisor: Université de Montréal
Co-advisor: Interpretable ML for the identification of zoonotic reservoirs

Post-doctoral researcher Since Oct 2024 Computer vision for improved species distribution models

B.Sc. Jan 2018 to May 2018 Review of best practices to use image recognition software on wildlife cameras

Post-doctoral researcher Mar 2022 to Mar 2024 Unsupervised learning and uncertainty quantification for species occurrence data

M.Sc. intern Jan 2015 to Jun 2015 Understanding how management programs could gain from studying the variability of plant-pollinator interactions

M.Sc. Sep 2019 to Jan 2022 Biogeography of lakes ecosystem services
Advisor: Roxane Maranger

Post-doctoral researcher Apr 2018 to May 2020 Modeling of hig-dimensional biodiversity data

B.Sc. Hon. Sep 2024 to May 2025 Extension of the range of raccoon rabies virus under climate change

B.Sc. intern May 2024 to Sep 2024 Sero-prevalence of Canine Distemper Virus over an urbanisation gradient

M.Sc. intern Sep 2023 to Dec 2023 Temporal dynamics of landcape connectivity and zoonotic risk

M.Sc. Sep 2021 to Aug 2023 Deep-learning for the bioacousting monitoring of bird communities
Co-advisor: Daniel J Mennil

Staff Jan 2016 to Jun 2016 Development of responsive databases front-end

B.Sc. Sep 2017 to Dec 2017 Automated extraction of phylogenetic data from species interaction networks

Ph.D. visitor Jan 2024 to Jun 2024 Quantifying predictability of environmental change and disease dynamics
Advisor: Colin J Carlson

B.Sc. Hon. Sep 2015 to May 2016 Planification, management, and restoration of landscape connectivity in the Laurentians

B.Sc. intern Jan 2015 to May 2015 Environmental drivers of host-parasite interaction variability

M.Sc. Sep 2018 to May 2020 Blue-green connectivity and ecosystem integrity in the Laurentians
Co-advisor: Roxane Maranger

B.Sc. intern Sep 2017 to Dec 2017 Best practices for the development and implementation of ecological corridors
Co-advisor: Roxane Maranger

M.Sc. intern Sep 2017 to Dec 2017 Inventory of open biodiversity data in Quebec

B.Sc. Sep 2018 to Dec 2018 Machine learning techniques to produce dynamics maps of land use from digitized and numeric maps

B.Sc. Sep 2023 to Dec 2023 Trophic regulation of biting vector by omnivorous bats

Ph.D. Sep 2015 to Apr 2020 Causes and consequences in the relationships between food web structure and ecosystem functioning
Co-advisor: Daniel B Stouffer

M.Sc. intern Jan 2019 to Jun 2019 Training of a neural network for mammals recognition in Québec
Co-advisor: Andrew MacDonald

Ph.D. Jan 2018 to Dec 2020 Empirical, theoretical and methodological study in macroecology of ecological interactions
Advisor: Thiago Rangel

B.Sc. Sep 2017 to Dec 2017 Measures of species complementarity in quantitative networks

B.Sc. Jan 2020 to May 2020 Survey of data on food webs in North America

Post-doctoral researcher Mar 2022 to Oct 2024 Development of multi-criteria monitoring and biosurveillance networks

M.Sc. intern Jan 2020 to Jun 2020 Convolutional neural networks for the prediction of landscape connectivity

M.Sc. intern Sep 2019 to Dec 2019 Prey use of generalist predators across their range

Staff Feb 2020 to May 2020 Preparation of data for the forecasting of coronaviruses epidemic risk

M.Sc. intern May 2020 to Oct 2020 Singular Value Decomposition as an imputation method for host-virus detection

Ph.D. Jan 2016 to Mar 2022 Eco-evolutionary dynamics in networks of positive and negative interactions
Co-advisor: Dominique Gravel

M.Sc. intern Jan 2023 to Jun 2023 Identification of structurally important interactions in network data

B.Sc. Jan 2025 to May 2025 Best practices for SDM validation reporting

Post-doctoral researcher Sep 2017 to May 2018 Pairwise learning to predict the structure of ecological networks

M.Sc. intern Jun 2020 to Dec 2020 Development of indicators for the communication of urban biodiversity trends

Ph.D. visitor Sep 2023 to Mar 2024 Spatial structure of plant-pollination networks in Europe
Advisor: Ignasi Bartomeus

Ph.D. Sep 2020 to Sep 2025 New quantitatives tools for the prediction and management of viral spillover events
Co-advisor: Patrick Leighton

Post-doctoral researcher Nov 2019 to Nov 2022 Type theory and higher-order probabilistic programming for ecological synthesis

Ph.D. Sep 2014 to Mar 2018 Artificial Intelligence applied to theory building for ecological synthesis
Advisor: Dominique Gravel

Ph.D. visitor Mar 2018 to Sep 2018 Implementation of structural models of food web structure
Advisor: Voitek Novotny

M.Sc. Sep 2013 to Mar 2016 Interactions between trees from experimental plantations and their microbial ectosymbionts
Advisor: Dominique Gravel

M.Sc. intern Sep 2021 to May 2022 Pathogen sharing in the global virome

M.Sc. intern Sep 2022 to Dec 2022 Ethical implications of the use of UAVs for biodiversity research

M.Sc. intern May 2021 to Oct 2021 Meta-models for inference and forecasting of biodiversity uniqueness

M.Sc. intern Sep 2019 to Dec 2019 Development of indicators based on eBird data to survey urban biodiversity changes in Montréal

M.Sc. intern Jan 2024 to May 2024 Meta-analysis of surveillance strategies for the Racoon rabies virus in Eastern Canada

M.Sc. Sep 2017 to Apr 2020 Impacts of temperature on the metabolic rates of ecological communities
Advisor: Dominique Gravel

Post-doctoral researcher Nov 2023 to Jan 2025 Natural and human influences on coupled carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in watersheds
Advisor: Roxane Maranger

Ph.D. Started Sep 2019 (not completed) Automated aggregation, synthesis, and forecasting of unstructured biodiversity data
Advisor: Dominique Gravel

Ph.D. Mar 2020 to Aug 2024 Understanding the common properties of species interaction networks across space

M.Sc. Jan 2021 to Jun 2023 Spatial structure of ecological networks over large gradients

B.Sc. Sep 2020 to Dec 2020 Structural analysis of the host-sharing network of coronaviruses

M.Sc. Started Sep 2018 (not completed) Variation in the composition of insect communities in forest fragments
Advisor: Colin Favret

B.Sc. Hon. Sep 2017 to May 2018 Robustness of permutation tests for the analysis of ecological network structure