Daniel Vaulot has been a researcher at The French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS since 1985. Now a Senior Scientist, he works at the marine biology and oceanography research and teaching center Station Biologique of Roscoff (France).

 

Dr Vaulot initially developed applications of flow cytometry to measure picoplankton and bacteria abundance in the ocean. These methods have become de facto standards in oceanography. About 25 year ago, he focused on the diversity and ecology of eukaryotic pico-phytoplankton which had received very little attention, pioneering molecular approaches such as gene cloning, metabarcoding and metagenomics. The group he initiated in Roscoff is now a global leader in plankton research with 35 researchers, post-docs and students. In 1998 he also created the Roscoff Culture Collection, by now the biggest collection in the world for marine phytoplankton. Currently Dr Vaulot’s interests revolve around green algae, a group that had been long neglected. In addition, he always had a keen interest in data processing and software development, recently focusing on the open source R language.

 

Daniel Vaulot co-authored more than 150 papers, including some in top journals such as Nature, Science or PNAS. He received the CNRS silver medal and is a member of the EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization). He is currently spending one year at the Asian School of the Environment at NTU (Singapore) as a visiting Professor.

 

Read more about Daniel Vaulot and his current research here