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Hervé Sauquet (group leader)
I am an evolutionary biologist and botanist with a broad interest in macroevolution. A key focus of my current and future research is to unravel and better understand large-scale patterns in the evolution of flowers. Botanic Gardens of Sydney webpage
Associate Editor, Taxon (2015-now) Editor, International Journal of Plant Sciences (2018-now) Research Affiliate, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (2022-now) Adjunct Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2019-now) |
2023-now, Head of Plant Discovery and Evolution Research, Principal Research Scientist, Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2022-2023, Acting Head of Plant Discovery and Evolution Research, Senior Research Scientist, Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2019-2023, Senior Research Scientist (Systematic Botanist), Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2017-2019, Research Scientist (Systematic Botanist), Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2014-2017, Associate Professor, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
2014, Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR), Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
2009-2014, Assistant Professor, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
2008-2009, Lecturer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
2006-2008, Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellow (postdoc), Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom
2004-2006, Postdoc, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
1999-2003, PhD, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
2022-2023, Acting Head of Plant Discovery and Evolution Research, Senior Research Scientist, Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2019-2023, Senior Research Scientist (Systematic Botanist), Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2017-2019, Research Scientist (Systematic Botanist), Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2014-2017, Associate Professor, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
2014, Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR), Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
2009-2014, Assistant Professor, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
2008-2009, Lecturer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
2006-2008, Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellow (postdoc), Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom
2004-2006, Postdoc, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
1999-2003, PhD, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Current lab members (Botanic Gardens of Sydney)
Previous lab members (Botanic Gardens of Sydney)
Karen López-Estrada (postdoc, 2023-2024)
Karen did a postdoc on macroevolutionary rates and punctuated evolution, funded by a Discovery research grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC) led by Simon Ho. Karen is now an Assistant Professor at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. |
Julian Herting (postdoc, 2022-2024)
Julian did a postdoc working on floral evolution in Ericales, funded by a Walter Benjamin postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Julian is now a consultant at AMBS Ecology & Heritage. |
Thomas Mesaglio (PhD student, 2022-2025)
Thomas did his PhD on species discovery and citizen science in the Australian flora, co-supervised with Will Cornwell. |
Yasmin Asar (PhD student, 2021-2024)
Yasmin did her PhD on testing the link between morphological and molecular evolutionary rates in flowering plants and other clades, co-supervised with Simon Ho. |
Ruby Stephens (PhD student, 2021-2024)
Ruby did her PhD on the functional biogeography of floral traits in Australia, co-supervised with Rachael Gallagher. She is now a postdoc at the University of New South Wales. |
Andrea López-Martínez (PhD student, 2019-2023)
Andrea did her PhD on the phylogenetic placement of fossil flowers in angiosperms, co-supervised with Susana Magallón. She is now a postdoc at the University of Vienna. |
Lily Dun (Research Assistant, 2021-2022)
Lily worked as a Research Assistant on the AusTraits project, increasing floral trait coverage through the eFLOWER project, co-supervised with Dan Falster. She is now a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. |
Melanie O’Donovan (MSc student, 2021)
Melanie conducted a research project on the macroevolution and macroecology of floral colour in Proteaceae, as part of her master's degree at Macquarie University. She is now a Technical Officer at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney. |
Nathan Langlais (research intern, 2020)
Nathan did a research internship with us at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney in early 2020 during a gap year. He helped with the Minimum Trait Set project and the PROTEUS database.
Nathan did a research internship with us at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney in early 2020 during a gap year. He helped with the Minimum Trait Set project and the PROTEUS database.
Previous lab members (Université Paris-Sud)
Qian Zhang (PhD student, 2015-2019)
Qian did his PhD on the evolution of dioecy in Moraceae, funded by the China Scholarship Council. He is now a Lecturer at Beijing Forestry University, China. |
Elisabeth Reyes (PhD student, 2013-2016; MSc student, 2012-2013)
Elisabeth did her PhD on floral key innovations in the angiosperms, co-supervised by Sophie Nadot. Her research as a master's student focused on Proteaceae diversification rates and floral symmetry. |
Renske Onstein (postdoc, 2015-2016)
Renske did a postdoc on the evolution of frugivory in Annonaceae, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is now Group Leader at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, The Netherlands. |
Stefan Little (postdoc, 2014-2016)
Stefan did a postdoc on the floral transcriptomes of Magnoliidae, supported by the ANR-funded project MAGNIPHY. |
Laetitia Carrive (PhD student, 2014-2016; MSc student, 2013-2014)
Laetitia did a master's project and part of her PhD on diversification and floral evolution in Annonaceae (Magnoliidae), co-supervised by Thomas Couvreur. She is now an Assistant Professor at Sorbonne Université. |
Julien Massoni (PhD student, 2010-2014)
Julien did his PhD on Magnoliidae, combining phylogenetic and molecular dating methods to reconstruct the history of floral diversification in the group. He is now a postdoc at ETH Zurich and co-founder of Lekiro. |
