Raphaël Scherrer Email & Phone Number

Groningen, Netherlands

Groningen, Netherlands

As a temporary lecturer at the University of Groningen I teach, coordinate and provide content for courses in evolutionary biology at the Bachelor's and Master's levels. Right now I am just done teaching the 3-week course Evolutionary Processes.

Groningen, Netherlands

In my PhD I code computer simulations and solve mathematical models to understand how new species form and how they evolve.

Uppsala, Sweden

Master's thesis. In this work I collected reflectance data from museum specimens of birds of paradise, and analyzed those data using Bayesian inference and phylogenetics to understand whether plumage color evolved gradually or "by jumps" in this family of birds.

Cambridge, Massachussetts

Master's thesis. In this research project I analyzed the coloration of the dewlap of lizards of the species Anolis sagrei from the Bahamas and Cayman Islands, and used multivariate statistics and machine learning to know if lizards tended to have different colors if they lived in different habitats. I also helped with caretaking of captive lizards in the.

Munich, Germany

Research project. In this work I used whole-genome transcriptomic data to compare patterns of gene expression between populations of the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster. As a small side project, I helped calculate the allele frequencies of an indel polymorphism involved in oxidative stress tolerance (MtnA 3'UTR) across a latitudinal gradient from Africa.

Groningen, Netherlands

Research project. In this project I conducted simulations of a theoretical model of species diversification, to see if assuming that the formation of new species takes time makes the resulting phylogenetic trees more similar in shape to real-life phylogenies.

Montpellier, France

Research project. During this work I conducted a MicroCT survey of the development of the ossified skeleton in the Cuban gar (Atractosteus tristoechus). I compared my findings to what I found using more classical Alcian blue/Alizarin red histological staining. On the side, I constructed a phylogeny of genes of the Dlx family to see the relationship between.

Master’S Degree, Evolutionary Biology, (Dutch) 9/10 (Gpa) 4.00

First semester of the international Erasmus Mundus Master's Programme in Evolutionary Biology (MEME), a partnership between the.

Master'S Degree, Evolutionary Biology

MEME 4th and final semester (second MSc thesis)

Master’S Degree, Evolutionary Biology

MEME 3rd semester (MSc thesis)

Master’S Degree, Evolutionary Biology, (Gpa) 3.90

MEME 2nd semester.

Master’S Degree, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, (French) 15.8/20 (Gpa) 3.83

Activities and Societies: GNUM (Groupe Naturaliste de l'Université de Montpellier): a naturalism association First year completed.

Bachelor’S Degree, Biology, General, (French) 16.279/20 (Gpa) 3.92

Activities and Societies: Volunteer team for inventory of the zoological sample collection of the Faculty of Science of Nancy.