Mio-Pliocene rodents from Chadian hominin sites : biochronological and paleoenvironmental implications

Thesis start: October 1st 2023
PhD Student: Amngar DASRABE
Supervisors: Patrick VIGNAUD, Vincent LAZZARI (PALEVOPRIM) et Mackaye Hassane TAÏSSO (Departemnt of Paleontology, University of N’Djamena, Chad)
Funding: Ambassade de France au Tchad (SCAC) sous tutelle du Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (MEAE)

Spatial dynamics of Plio-Pleistocene communities (dispersals, endemism, extinctions) in the northern Great African Rift: global vs. local factors

Thesis start: October 1st 2023
PhD Student: Haregwin HAILU
Supervisors: Gildas MERCERON (PALEOVOPRIM), Jean-Renaud BOISSERIE (Centre français des études éthiopiennes CFEE)
Funding: CNRS

Carnivores and humans at the end of the Upper Pleistocene in west-central France: an integrated palaeobiology/archaeozoology study

Thesis start: November 1st 2023
PhD Student:  Laurie PELISSIER
Supervisors: Gildas MERCERON (PALEVOPRIM), Marie-Anne JULIEN (HNHP, Paris), Éric ROBERT (HNHP, Paris)
Funding: University of Poitiers

Comparative ecomorphological analysis of the mio-plio-pleistocene faunas in Central Africa (Chad Basin) and Eastern Africa (Omo Basin): environments and biological evolution at the scale of the African continent

Thesis start: October 1st 2023
PhD Student:  Julian KAROUI CANEDO
Supervisors: Jean-Renaud BOISSERIE, Cécile BLONDEL, Franck GUY (PALEVOPRIM)
Funding: Région Nouvelle Aquitaine, Grand Poitiers

Evolution of vertebrates and wetlands around the K/Pg boundary

Thesis start: October 1st 2022
PhD Student:  Olivier JANSEN
Supervisors: Olga OTERO, Géraldine GARCIA
Funding: Région Nouvelle Aquitaine, University of Poitiers: Aquapal project

Paleoecology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Neogene Elephantids of the Northern Rift (Awash and Turkana Basins, Ethiopia and Kenya) and Central Africa, Chad

Thesis start: September 1st 2021
PhD Student : Tomas Getachew BEDANE
Supervisors: Jean-Renaud BOISSERIE (directeur HDR), Mackaye Hassane Taïsso (Senior Lecturer, Department of Paleontology, University of N’Djamena, Chad)
Funding: the Embassy of France to Ethiopia

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