I am currently a PhD candidate studying how social and ecological factors influence foraging behavior and survival in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) living in an arid environment in Namibia. Working between Montpellier, London, and Namibia, I combine field observations, long-term environmental data, and mathematical modeling to understand how these primates cope with changing ecological conditions.
My research focuses on three main questions: how individual foraging success emerges from the interaction between social position and resource availability, how environmental constraints reshape the organization of social structure over time and how environmental conditions, food availability, and social integration jointly shape individual survival.
Using more than twenty years of longitudinal data, I develop models linking environmental variation, social networks, and survival dynamics to better understand how social systems adapt under challenging climatic conditions.