Lucas Buffan
PhD student
I am a PhD student interested in the underlying drivers of large-scale biodiversity patterns through time and space. For my PhD project, I use fossil and molecular data to study how South American mammals responded to climate disruptions and biogeographic turnovers in the Cenozoic (last 66 Million years), from a modelling perspective. I am also interested in the bias in palaeobiogical and palaeobiogeographical analyses. My PhD is co-supervised by Sara Varela and two researchers from the University of Montpellier, France: Fabien Condamine and Laurent Marivaux.