CNRS Bronze Medals: two winning scientists from Université Paris-Saclay

Céline Bellard is an ecologist and researcher at the Ecology, Systems and Evolution Laboratory (ESE – Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS/AgroParisTech), where she studies the consequences of biological invasions, and more generally, global changes on biodiversity, using macroecological approaches. Céline Bellard studies both vertebrates and invertebrates, in the hope of understanding the factors which impact the spatial distribution of species and the processes involved. She also explores the repercussions of large-scale biological invasions on various aspects of diversity, both taxonomic and functional, particularly within insular ecosystems. Her objective is to identify the characteristics which make species vulnerable to biological invasions.

Lauriane Mouysset is a researcher in ecological economics at the International Research Centre for the Environment and Development (CIRED – Univ. Paris-Saclay/AgroParisTech/Cirad/EHESS/Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/CNRS). Her research is at the interface between ecology, natural resource economics and modelling. Her work contributes to key thinking on the necessary public policies to achieve and maintain the durability of social-ecological systems. Through the development of interdisciplinary models, Lauriane Mouysset leads critical thinking on the sustainable management of our societies within the ecosystems in which they evolve.