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# resume



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## Links



- [GitHub](https://github.com/rscherrer)

- [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raphael-Scherrer)

- [RUG page](https://www.rug.nl/staff/r.scherrer/)

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rapha%C3%ABl-scherrer-5817a3bb)

- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1447-7630)



## Education



- PhD in Theoretical Biology titled "The genomic architecture of adaptive speciation" (2017-present). Department of Theoretical Research in Evolutionary Life Sciences, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. Supervised by Prof. Dr. G. Sander van Doorn and Prof. Dr. Rampal S. Etienne.



- Erasmus Mundus Master's in Evolutionary Biology ([MEME](https://evobio.eu), 2015-2017). University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands (GPA 4/4). Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany (GPA 3.9/4). Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA (thesis). Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (thesis). 



- MSc Ecology and Evolution (first year, 2014-2015). University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France (GPA 3.83/4).



- BSc Biology (2011-2014). University of Lorraine, Nancy, France (GPA 3.92/4). Graduated summa cum laude (Mention Très Bien).



- Scientific Baccalauréat (2011). Lycée Louis Majorelle, Toul, France. Graduated summa cum laude (Mention Très Bien).



## Publications



- **Scherrer, R**., Donihue, C. M., Reynolds, R. G., Losos, J. B., & Geneva, A. J. (2022). Dewlap colour variation in *Anolis sagrei* is maintained among habitats within islands of the West Indies. *Journal of Evolutionary Biology*, 35(5), 680–692. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14002



- Simonet, C., **Scherrer, R**., Rego-Costa, A., & Etienne, R. S. (2018). Robustness of the approximate likelihood of the protracted speciation model. *Journal of Evolutionary Biology*, 31(3), 469–479. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13233



- **Scherrer, R**., Hurtado, A., Garcia Machado, E., & Debiais-Thibaud, M. (2017). MicroCT survey of larval skeletal mineralization in the Cuban gar *Atractosteus tristoechus* (Actinopterygii; Lepisosteiformes). *MorphoMuseuM*, 3(3), e3. https://doi.org/10.18563/m3.3.3.e3



## Software



- Etienne, R., Lima Valente, L., Phillimore, A. B., Haegeman, B., Lambert, J., Neves, P., Xie, S., Bilderbeek, R., Hauffe, T., Laudanno, G., Kristensen, N. & **Scherrer, R.** (2020). DAISIE: Dynamical Assembly of Islands by Speciation, Immigration and Extinction. https://cran.r-project.org/package=DAISIE



## Other research



- MSc thesis (2017). Sexual selection and the rapid evolution of plumage coloration upon speciation: a study of birds of paradise (Paradisaeidae). Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Supervised by Dr. Melanie J. Monroe.



- MSc thesis (2016). Adaptive divergence of a sexual trait in a Caribbean lizard. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Supervised by Dr. Anthony J. Geneva, Dr. Colin M. Donihue and Prof. Dr. Jonathan B. Losos.



- MSc project (2016). Gene expression divergence between populations and sexes in *Drosophila melanogaster*. Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. Supervised by Prof. Dr. John Parsch.



- MSc project (2015). Tree imbalance under the Protracted Birth Death model of speciation. Department of Theoretical Research in Evolutionary Life Sciences, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Rampal S. Etienne.



- MSc project (2015). Skeletal development and evolution of developmental genes in the Cuban gar (*Atractosteus tristoechus*). In French. Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France. Supervised by Dr. Melanie Debiais-Thibaud.



## Conferences



- Conference talk (2022). Epistasis makes ecological speciation be driven by a speciation genome, not by speciation genes. Junior meeting of the Dutch Society for Evolutionary Biology (NLSEB), Groningen, the Netherlands.



- Conference talk (2021). The genomic signatures of speciation with gene networks. Modelling in Ecology and Evolution Meeting (MEEM), Lausanne, Switzerland.



- Conference talk (2021). Modeling speciation with gene networks. Meeting of the Dutch Society for Theoretical Biology (NVTB), Schoorl, the Netherlands.



- Poster (2018). Cladogenetic evolution of plumage coloration in birds of paradise. Evolution conference (ASN/SSB/SSE/ESEB), Montpellier, France.



- Poster (2018). Sexual selection plays a limited role in accelerating color evolution upon speciation in birds of paradise. Meeting of the Dutch Society for Evolutionary Biology (NLSEB), Ede, the Netherlands.



- Poster (2017). Adaptive divergence of dewlap coloration in *Anolis sagrei*. Meeting of the European Society for Evoutionary Biology (ESEB), Groningen, the Netherlands.



## Teaching



(University of Groningen.)



- Lecturer (2023 - now). Currently teaching and coordinating the course Evolutionary Processes (BSc) and restructuring the course Evolutionary Theory (MSc).



- Teaching assistant (2019, 2020). Programming in C++ for biologists (BSc, MSc, PhD). Practicals and one lecture. 



- Teaching assistant (2020, 2021). Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution (MSc). Practicals on the concept of fitness. 



- Teaching assistant (2020, 2021, 2022). Evolutionary Processes (BSc). Computer practicals on speciation theory. 



- Supervision of MSc thesis (2020). Vasiliki (Celia) Tsapalou (MSc Ecology and Evolution). Inferring the Additive and Epistatic Genetic Architecture involved in Speciation Using Neural Networks.



- Supervision of MSc thesis (2019). Joris Damhuis (MSc Ecology and Evolution). Optimal choice and speciation.



- Supervision of MSc essay (2020). Sebastian Mader (MSc Ecology and Evolution). Machine learning vs. “classical” statistics – A redundant but understandable differentiation.



- Grading of MSc essay (2020). Israel Campo Bes (MEME MSc program). On the Origin of Genetic Dominance by Means of Natural Selection?



- Supervision of MSc mini-project (2019). Reinier de Vries. Generating a phylogenetic tree from a distance matrix using UPGMA and NJ. Programming in C++ for biologists.



- Supervision of BSc project (2020). Elsie Tata and Robin Hamberg. Detecting speciation genetic architectures. Modelling in the Life Sciences Research.



- Supervision of BSc project (2019). Jelle Molenkamp and Nicolette Tataru. The evolution of gene regulatory networks. Modelling in the Life Sciences Research.



- Supervision of BSc project (2018). Rik Nienhuis and Bob Evenhuis. The effect of resource limitation and asymmetric competition on insular dwarfism and gigantism. Community Ecology Research.



- Tutorial (2020). Advanced data manipulation using R and the tidyverse. Openly available at [https://github.com/pratikunterwegs/tres-tidy-tutorial](https://github.com/pratikunterwegs/tres-tidy-tutorial).



## Peer review



- Review for Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society (2022)



- Review for Nature Communications Biology (2022)



- Review for Oikos (2021).



- Review for Oikos (2018).



- Co-review for Journal of Morphology (2017).



## Outreach



- Voluntary lecturer for the upcoming Evolutionary Biology Crash Course (2023 edition), a free online course aimed at students from the Global South (topics: speciation theory, models of macroevolution, adaptive dynamics).

[https://evobiocrashcourse.github.io/](https://evobiocrashcourse.github.io/)



- Participant in the Knowledge Clips project of the NLSEB (2023), aimed at making topics in evolutionary biology accessible to students across Dutch universities and beyond.



- 1-minute elevator pitch contest. NLSEB PhD/postdoc meeting 2021, Ede, the Netherlands.



- Podcast episode (2019). Meme Stream Episode 2: The tempo of evolution and the birds-of-paradise with Raphaël Scherrer. Available [here](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4lsaLONEsJtfeOObHPltq5) or [here](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLnNvdW5kY2xvdWQuY29tL3VzZXJzL3NvdW5kY2xvdWQ6dXNlcnM6NTYzNDE5NjExL3NvdW5kcy5yc3M/episode/dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmFja3MvNTYxNDk3MzMx?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiAxs7L6Pj4AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg&hl=en-NL)



- Short talk "Cladogenetic evolution of plumage coloration in birds of paradise". Outreach seminar series in honor of writer Redmond O'Hanlon (2018), Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, Groningen, the Netherlands.



## Volunteering



- Field assistant (2017). Capture of wild brown anoles (*Anolis sagrei*) from the Bahamas for an experimental lizard colony at Harvard University. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Supervised by Dr. Colin M. Donihue and Prof. Dr. Jonathan B. Losos.



- Lab assistant (2016). Maintenance and animal husbandry for an experimental lizard colony at Harvard University. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Supervised by Dr. Colin M. Donihue and Dr. Anthony J. Geneva.



- Internship (2014). Maintenance and measurements in a mesocosm phytosanitary experiment in ecotoxicology. Research unit "Animals and Functionality of Animal Products", University of Lorraine, Nancy, France. Supervised by Dr. Marielle Thomas.



- Internship (2013). Behavioral observation and cognition experiments in a social network of captive rooks (*Corvus frugilegus*). Department of Ecophysiology and Ethology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Strasbourg, France. Supervised by Dr. Valérie Dufour.



- Voluntary participation (2013). Inventory of the zoological collection of the faculty. University of Lorraine, Nancy, France.



## Society memberships



- Membership (2021). Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). 



- Membership (2021). Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE).



- Membership (2018-2019, 2021). Dutch Society for Evolutionary Biology (NLSEB).



- Membership (2017-2018). European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB).



- Membership (2016-2019). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).



## Skills



### Programming



- C++

- R

- Python

- MATLAB

- Mathematica

- LaTeX

- bash



- Test-driven development



### Languages



- French: native

- English: fluent (C2)

- Spanish: advanced (C1)

- Dutch: basic (A1)



### Software



- Office suites (Microsoft, Libre Office, Open Office...)

- Vector graphics: Adobe Illustrator / Inkscape

- Image editors: Adobe Photoshop / GIMP

- Computer clusters



### Other



To be refined based on the position I apply to (e.g. 3D mesh software, wet lab skills, X-ray microtomography, etc.).



### Diabetes



Self-management of type I diabetes since 2013.



### Activities



- Salsa dancing (2019-2020, salsa 1 to salsa 4 at The Blue Toes, Groningen, the Netherlands; 2020-2023, salsa intermediate 1 to salsa advanced 3 at Salsa Juan Carlos, Groningen, the Netherlands)



- Mixed Martial Arts (2011-2012, Pancrace/Grappling at Punch, Nancy, France; 2019-present, MMA/Grappling/Kickboxing at Deltaserat, Groningen, the Netherlands)



- Ju-jitsu (2009-2011, orange belt from the French national Judo federation)



- Favorite podcasts: The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe and Sur Les Épaules de Darwin



- Nature photography



- Cooking and baking



- Landscape and natural history illustration



- Circus arts (diabolo mostly)