Kévan is a PhD student in the Biology department at the University of Victoria (UVic) under the supervision of Mark Lewis. He holds a BSc in Biology from the University of La Rochelle (ULR), which he obtained in 2020. Kévan then pursued his interest in ecological methods by enrolling in the Master’s degree in Ecological Modeling (MODE) at the University of Rennes 1 (UR1), where he graduated in 2022. He has completed two internships during his time at UR1.
During his first year, he worked at the Institut Sophia Agrobiotech in the Models and Methods for Plant Protection (M2P2) team, where he co-developed a mechanistic model for the population dynamics of Mediterranean fruit flies (Ceratitis capitata) in a sterile insect technique (SIT) design perspective.
In his second year, he worked in the Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection (EGI) team, where he co-developed a hierarchical Bayesian model to quantify the predation rate of carabid beetles using molecular gut-content prey DNA detection.
Kévan is now interested in applying machine learning methods in ecology. Currently, he is working on the TRIA-FoR project, which aims to improve the effectiveness of risk assessments for the spread of mountain pine beetle (MPB).