Research Interests

• Community ecology
• Biodiversity structure
• Diversity variation
• Benthic invertebrates
• Influence of Ecosystem Engineers on Diversity

Education

2019 - 2022
Ph.D Benthic Ecology
Sorbonne Université, France
Vent faunal distribution and biodiversity partitioning in a fragmented ridge system: the West Pacific back-arc basins.

2016 - 2018
MSc Oceanography and Marine Environment
Sorbonne Université, France

2013 - 2016
BSc Sciences, Technologies and Health - Life Science, Marine Biology;
Université de La Rochelle, France

Research Experience

Oceanographic expedition aboard CCGS Amundsen (July 2024)
Labrador Sea & Baffin Bay, Fauna sampling with a boxcore

Postdoctoral fellowship (2024 - present)
Labo P. Archambault, Département de Biology
Université Laval, Canada

Ph.D (2019 - 2022)
Supervisor Éric Thiébaut & Marjolaine Matabos, Station biologique de Roscoff UMR7144
Sorbonne Université, France

Oceanographic expedition aboard the R/V L'Atalante (Mar-June 2019)
Fauna sampling with the ROV Victor6000
Southwest Pacific

MSc internship (Jan-June 2018)
Supervisor Stanislas Dubois, Amélia Curd & Nicolas Desroy, Dynamiques des Écosystèmes Côtiers
Centre Ifremer de Brest, France

MSc internship (Apr-June 2017)
Supervisor Éric Thiébaut, Station biologique de Roscoff UMR7144
Sorbonne Université, France

BSc internship (Apr-June 2016)
Supervisor Éric Pante, Institut Littoral Environnement et Sociétés
La Rochelle, France

Awards

2023
Deep-Sea Biology Society Conference Support Award (£750) for the 7th International Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems Symposium

2023
Roscoff Biological Station AJC travel grants to international conferences (600€)

Publications

2024

Chen, C., Poitrimol, C., & Matabos, M. (2024). Integrative taxonomy of new neomphaloidean gastropods from deep-sea hot vents of the southwestern Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlae064. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae064

Poitrimol, C., Matabos, M., Veuillot, A., Ramière, A., Comtet, T., Boulart, C., Cathalot, C., & Thiébaut, É. (2024). Reproductive biology and population structure of three hydrothermal gastropods (Lepetodrilus schrolli, L. fijiensis and Shinkailepas tollmanni) from the South West Pacific back-arc basins. Marine Biology, 171(1), 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04348-4

2023

Diaz-Recio Lorenzo, C., Patel, T., Arsenault-Pernet, E.-J., Poitrimol, C., Jollivet, D., Martinez Arbizu, P., & Gollner, S. (2023). Highly structured populations of deep-sea copepods associated with hydrothermal vents across the Southwest Pacific, despite contrasting life history traits. PloS One, 18(11), e0292525. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292525

2022

Boulart, C., Rouxel, O., Scalabrin, C., Le Meur, P., Pelleter, E., Poitrimol, C., Thiébaut, E., Matabos, M., Castel, J., Tran Lu Y, A., Michel, L. N., Cathalot, C., Chéron, S., Boissier, A., Germain, Y., Guyader, V., Arnaud-Haond, S., Bonhomme, F., Broquet, T., … Jollivet, D. (2022). Active hydrothermal vents in the Woodlark Basin may act as dispersing centres for hydrothermal fauna. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00387-9

Poitrimol, C., Thiébaut, É., Daguin-Thiébaut, C., Port, A.-S., Ballenghien, M., Tran Lu Y, A., Jollivet, D., Hourdez, S., & Matabos, M. (2022). Contrasted phylogeographic patterns of hydrothermal vent gastropods along South West Pacific: Woodlark Basin, a possible contact zone and/or stepping-stone. PLOS ONE, 17(10), e0275638. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275638

2021

Muller, A., Poitrimol, C., Nunes, F. L. D., Boyé, A., Curd, A., Desroy, N., Firth, L. B., Bush, L., Davies, A. J., Lima, F. P., Marzloff, M. P., Meneghesso, C., Seabra, R., & Dubois, S. F. (2021). Musical Chairs on Temperate Reefs: Species Turnover and Replacement Within Functional Groups Explain Regional Diversity Variation in Assemblages Associated With Honeycomb Worms. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.654141

2017

Pante, E., Poitrimol, C., Saunier, A., Becquet, V., & Garcia, P. (2017). Putative sex-linked heteroplasmy in the tellinid bivalve Limecola balthica (Linnaeus, 1758). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 83(2), 226-228. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyw038