Clint D. Kelly | Principal investigator
Canada Research Chair in Behavioral Ecology
Groupe de Recherche en Écologie Comportamentale et Animale

Clint obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Waterloo, MSc. from Mount Allison University (supervisor: Prof. Jean-Guy Godin) and PhD from the University of Toronto (supervisor: Prof. Darryl Gwynne).  He completed an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship at the Australian National University (host: Prof. Michael Jennions) and was a Killam Fellow at Dalhousie University (host: Prof. Shelley Adamo).  He joined the EEOB faculty at Iowa State University in 2008 and then migrated back home in 2013 to join the faculty in the Department of Biological Science at the Université du Quebéc à Montréal.

Clint is a former member of ReNewZoo, an Ambassador for the Center for Open Science, and a former  Board Director of  the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE).

Antoine Bour | Doctorat/PhD  
bour.antoine[at]courrier.uqam.ca
Developmental and social environmental effects on behaviour, polyandry, sexual selection, and pace-of-life syndromes​
​Antoine’s PhD examines how developmental conditions and the adult social environment shape behavioural variation, including animal personality, behavioural plasticity, and predictability. He will test how these environmental effects influence female polyandry and the strength and form of sexual selection acting on males. By integrating behavioural, morphological, physiological, and life-history traits, his research will also determine whether developmental environments alter the structure and expression of pace-of-life syndromes.
Céline Ozkan | Doctorat/PhD
​ozkan.celine[at]courrier.uqam.ca
​Promiscuity, predictability, and paternity: female mating behaviour and sperm competition in the European earwig

Céline’s PhD research examines why female European earwigs vary in their mating behaviour and how this variation influences sperm competition and male reproductive success. Using repeated behavioural assays, environmental manipulations, and genetic paternity assignment, she will test whether female promiscuity is consistent through time and dependent on body condition, whether major and minor males experience different levels of sperm competition, and how sperm from successive mates are stored and used. Her research will reveal how female behaviour, the social environment, and alternative male mating strategies interact to shape paternity and sexual selection.
Sarah Saneeibajgiran | Doctorat/PhD (Co-supervised with P.-O. Montiglio)
Effect of urbanization on hunting behaviour and web construction in the black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus)

Alumni

Maxime Fraser Franco (PhD, cosupervised with P-O Montiglio) 2026 | Current:  Data scientist, Nectar Technologies, Montreal, Canada
Andréanne Nault (MSc) 2025 | Current: 
Céline Ozkan (MSc stagiere, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 ) 2025
Julien Céré (PhD) 2025 | Current: Agent de recherche à la Biodôme (Montréal)
Antoine Bour (MSc stagiere, University of Strasbourg) 2023
Roxanne Gagnon (MSc) 2022 | Current: 
Dominique Roche ( Agent de recherche) 2020 | Current: Senior Policy Advisor, Corporate Strategy and Performance, Social Sciences and Humanities  
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Éloïse Adam-Granger (MSc) 2019 | Current: 
Valérie L'Heureux (MSc) 2019 | Current: Directrice adjointe des études, Collège Universel
​Sarah Nason (MSc) 2019 | Current: Fuse Consulting
​Tina Wey (Post-doc) 2017 | Current: Research scientist, Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Université de Sherbrooke
Amy Worthington (PhD) 2015 | Current: Assistant Professor | Department of Biology, Creighton University
​Brittany Tawes (MSc) 2014 | Current: Teaching Laboratory Associate | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University.
Melissa Telemeco (MSc) 2014 | Current:  Portal to the Public Program Specialist, Pacific Science Center in the Science and Education Division