PAVARD Samuel

Main research interest 

I am a demographer with broad interests in understanding the biological, environmental, cultural and social determinants of demographic traits (as fertility and survival) in humans. 

Questions that particularly interest me include (i) how and why such traits vary over time and between populations, (ii) how these demographic traits influence (and are influenced by) population dynamics, and (iii) how they have evolved during human history. My main research focuses are currently on two aspects:

• The investigation of the joint evolution of life-history and sociality (in the ecological sense) in our species.

• To study of the evolution of senescence in our species : Why do we age ? At what pace ? Do all functional systems age at the same pace ? What are the social drivers of - and the constraints on - senescence ?

A Mising girl in a rice field (Assam, 2003)

Crédits

© S.Pavard

Post-doctoral fellows

• Pauline Hervois Knowledge about Infertility: Data (Level, Sources) and Speeches

• Pauline Hervois  Identifying the causes of cretinism: Investigations and etiological studies on an endemic disease (France, 19th century)

• Victor Ronget (Funded by the ANR MathKinD) - Development and analysis kin & age structured model in humans

• Tazzio Tissot (Funded by the labex BCDiv) - Vieillir pour ne pas mourir : coévolution de la sénescence et des cancers

PhD Students

• Clémence Elmira (with Emmanuel Cohen) -  Profils agro-alimentaires pluriels et santé dans un contexte de transition nutritionnelle aux Antilles
• Lucie Vanhoutte (with Emmanuel Cohen, Géraldine Duthé) - Évolution de la mortalité adulte sous les effets conjoints des transitions nutritionnelle, épidémiologique et démographique : le cas du Sénégal
• Margaux Bieuville (with Tazzio Tissot) - Spatially-structured cellular demography: application to mutation accumulation in tissues and consequences for cancers and organism senescence.
• Christophe Coste (with Frédéric Austerlitz) - The costs of reproduction in evolutionary demography : An application of Multitrait Population Projection Matrix models
• Goki Ly (with Raphaëlle Chaix and Frédéric Austerlitz) - Du système de parenté à la diversité génétique dans les populations humaines d’Asie du Sud-Est
• Julie Landes (with Pierre-Yves Henry) - Compromis entre traits d’histoire de vie et saisonnalité chez un primate hétérotherme

Education 

• 2021 – Professor at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France
• 2008 – Lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France
• 2005-2008 Postdoctoral fellow, Evolutionary Demography Team, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
• 2000-2004 Ph.D thesis in Human Ecology and Demography, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France. Subject : « Investissement maternel et survie de l’enfant:approche démographique, génétique et évolutive » (supervisor : Pr. E. Heyer).
• Rewarded by the “Prix Bertillon de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris”, 2004).
• 1999 – 2000 Master’s Degree in Human Population Demography and Biology. Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. Subject : « Study of selective pressures on BRCA1 breast cancer susceptibility gene » (supervisor : Pr. E. Heyer).
• 1998 – 1999 Bachelor’s Honours in Cellular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Sciences, Angers, France. Internship in epidemiology- Genetics, Center of Cancerology, Paul Papin, Angers, France. Subject : « Determination of an optimal strategy to detect BRCA1 mutations by analyzing familial breast and ovarian cancer profiles » (supervisor : Dr A. Daver).