Today Lucie defended her PhD thesis and became a Dr after passing her viva with minor corrections.

Her thesis entitled Conservation and disturbance of complex food webs across spatial scales encompassed a range of interesting studies about the effects of different anthropogenic disturbances on the the structure of complex food webs.

She had the pleasure to have Dr Elisa Thébault from the Sorbonne University and Dr Laura Graham from the University of Birmingham as the external examiners. They had a very interesting discussion about Lucie’s work and joined us for celebrations afterwards!

Congratulations Lucie!