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Academic career
Academic career
2026
Post-doc - Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE), Montpellier, France.
Modelling consequences of pollinator cognition on pollen dispersal patterns.
Supervised by Mathieu Lihoreau and Louise Riotte-Lambert.
2022-2025
PhD - Research Center on Animal Cognition (CRCA), Toulouse, France & CEFE, Montpellier.
Modelling bee foraging movements and their consequences on pollination.
Supervised by Mathieu Lihoreau and Louise Riotte-Lambert.
Project funded by the ‘BEE-MOVE’ ERC grant.
2021-2022
Internship - CRCA, Toulouse.
Developing a model of bee foraging movements.
Supervised by Mathieu Lihoreau and Louise Riotte-Lambert.
2020-2021
Internship - Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR), Paris, France.
Testing a model of hippocampal replays with a simulated robot navigation task.
Supervised by Mehdi Khamassi.
Education
Education
2020-2022
MSc - Cognitive Science, Modelling major |ENS Ulm, Université Paris-Cité, EHESS, Paris, France
GP: 16.75/20
2019-2020
BSc - Mathematics | Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
GP: 16.73/20
First year of undergraduate studies - Psychology | Université Paris Descartes, Paris
GP: 18.22/20
2017-2019
Two-year preparatory classes for engineering schools - Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science | Reims, France
2017
French high school degree - Science major
GP: 20.68/20
Academic work
Academic work
Supervision
Supervision
2026
PhD student, technical advisor - Renzhuang Xie
Impact of resource homogeneity on bee movements.
2025
Master’s internship, 2 months - Dany Tebbani
Behavioural experiment on bumble bees and introduction to modelling.
2024
Master’s internship, 6 months - Thomas Besognet
Modelling animal-mediated pollen transfers within a plant population.
Conferences
Conferences
2024
Poster - Foraging and Information Seeking Conference (Lyon, France).
Talk - SFE2 Conference (Lyon, France).
Talk - SFECA Conference (Albi, France).
2023
Talk - Behaviour Conference (Bielefeld, Germany).
Awards
Awards
2025
Ranked among the top 100 applicants (out of 700) for the L’Oréal-UNESCO French “For Women in Science” program.
2024
Award for best oral communication at the SFECA 2024 Conference (Albi, France).
Peer review
Peer review
2026 - Evolution
2023 - Apidologie
Skills
Skills
Language
French (native), English (fluent), Spanish (conversational)
Programming
Python, R, OCaml, SQL
Thanks to this website I guess I now dabble in html...
Research
Individual-based and mathematical modelling, big data statistics, mesocosm behavioural experiments
Values
Values
Well-being at work
Well-being at work
2023
Organising the lab retreat (~100 people, 2 days). Handling the logistics and organising several group activities, including a session on well-being at work with all the non-permanent staff.
Outreach and science communication
Outreach and science communication
2022-2023
Various scientific outreach activities in middle schools around Toulouse and in northern France. Themes of the activities included: pollinator species diversity and conservation, the role of researchers, and the representation of women in STEM.
2020-2022
Tutoring high school and undergraduate students in mathematics and physics.
Supporting inclusivity and diversity in research
Supporting inclusivity and diversity in research
2024-2025
Steering and organising the first two editions of the conference Scienc.e.s - No science without us! in Toulouse, France. Multidisciplinary conference about inclusivity and diversity in scientific research.
First author publications
First author publications
5. Mailly, J., Laroche, F., Lihoreau, M., Riotte-Lambert, L. (in prep). How pollinators’ spatial cognition shapes pollen dispersal kernels.
4. Mailly, J., Riotte-Lambert, L., Lihoreau, M. (2026). Why we need more mechanisms in pollination models. Current Opinion in Insect Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2026.101562
3. Mailly, J., Besognet, T., Lihoreau, M., Riotte-Lambert, L. (2025). The Influence of Bee Movements on Patterns of Pollen Transfer between Plants: An Exploratory Model. Integrative and Comparative Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaf051
2. Mailly, J., Riotte-Lambert, L., Lihoreau, M. (2025). How pollinator movement patterns emerge from the interaction between cognition and the environment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2271
1. Mailly, J., Riotte-Lambert, L., Lihoreau, M. (2025). Integrating pollinators’ movements into pollination models. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. http://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2025.1504480
These and all other publications are available in open-access.
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