YVES VIGOUROUX
YVES VIGOUROUX
Director of Research at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD),
Montpellier,
France
E-mail: yves.vigouroux@ird.fr
Biography
- Master in Ecology and Evolution, University Montpellier II, France, 1994
- PhD University of Burgundy, 2000
- HDR University of Montpellier II, 2013
- Postdoctoral studies, University of Madison, Wisconsin, 2001-2003
Research Interest
My research focuses on studying how evolutionary processes shaped population and genome diversity. We focus primarily on cultivated crops and their wild relatives. With cultivated crops, we have also to understand how human activities and historical events shaped their diversity.