Melen Leclerc

#### **CURRENT POSITION** Researcher in plant disease epidemiology from the Plant Health and Environment (SPE) division of INRAE, located in the UMR IGEPP research unit (Rennes) and working in the Dynamics-Evolution-Modelling & Ecology team. #### **RESEARCH INTERESTS** plant disease epidemiology, population dynamics, mathematical modelling, statistics, sensor network for agricultural and environmental monitoring, computer vision, leveraging plants for disease control. #### **EDUCATION** - 2009-2012 : PhD Thesis in Applied Ecology and Agronomy at INRA, Rennes, France. - 2006-2009 : Master in Engineering majoring in Fisherie Sciences at ENSAR, Rennes, France. #### **RESEARCH EXPERIENCE** - Since 2014 : Permanent researcher at INRAE in plant disease epidemiology, UMR IGEPP, Rennes, France. - 2013-2014 : Post-doc at INRA in ecological modelling, UR BioSP, Avignon, France. - 2009-2012 : PhD student at INRA in closed collaboration with the Epidemiology and Modelling Group of the University of Cambrigde, URM IGEPP, Rennes, France. - 2009 : Intern at Agrocampus Ouest in marine ecology and fisheries science, UMR ESE, Rennes, France. - 2007 : Intern at Macquarie University in marine ecology, Marine Ecology Group, Sydney, Australia. #### **PhD STUDENTS** - 2023-2026 : Delphine Chauvin, Durable IPM for potato late blight, supervised with Didier Andrivon and Denis Gaucher. - 2022-2025 : Hassan Hammoud, Software mechanisms for agile data collection in connected fields, supervised with Frédéric Weis and Jean-Marie Bonnin. - 2021-2024 : Sheila Permanes, Imaging and modelling of the spatio-temporal spread of parasites with growing lesions, supervised with Youcef Mammeri.