Thibault Leroy

Dr Thibault Leroy is a population geneticist and a molecular evolutionist, currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Montpellier, France. Thibault already worked on a large range of species (including wild and domesticated plants, plant pathogens and animal species). He initially focused his research on studies of adaptation and species diversification, including last 4 years spent working on the evolution of oaks at INRA Bordeaux, France. He developed a strategy to identify somatic mutations in pedunculate oak. His current project focuses on the accumulation of deleterious mutations in genomes, particularly in passerine birds.

Born in 1986, few weeks only after the Chernobyl accident, Dr Thibault Leroy was interested since his youth to the evolution of living organisms near Chernobyl and initiated the general work plan for the project.

July 2018