Our People.

Discover the people who make the EPIDEC Groupe alive.

The EPIDEC Group was born in 2014 and is growing fast.
It is now composed of 6 professors or associate professors, 3 post-docs, 5 PhD students and 2 research assistants.
If you want to join our group, get in touch!

Permanent staff

Fabien Corbière

Associate professor in Ruminant Medicine and Health Management

Timothée Vergne

Associate professor in Veterinary Public Health

Guillaume Lhermie

Associate professor in Animal Health Economics

Agnès Waret-Szkuta

Associate professor in Swine Production and Population Medicine​

Mathilde Paul

Associate professor in Epidemiology and Avian Population Medicine​

Didier Raboisson

Professor in Ruminant Population Medicine and Animal Health Economics 

Post-docs

Ahmed Ferchiou

Agricultural systems modelling and animal health economics (since 2017)

Claire Guinat

Spatial epidemiology of avian influenza (since 2017)

Debapriyo Chakraborty

Phylodynamics of avian influenza viruses (since 2020)

PhD students

Mattias Delpont

Biosecurity and health management in the poultry sector (2017-2020)

Brandon Hayes

Modelling African swine fever spread in domestic pigs and wild boar (2020-2023)

Billy Bauzile

Mathematical modelling of avian influenza spread (​2019-2022)

Ikram Abdouttalib

Economic modelling of mixed French veterinary structures (​2019-2022)

Jérémy Lesueur

Characterising dairy cattle health using multicriteria approaches (​2019-2022)

Research assistants

Maud Yakovleff

Marie-Noël Chanthavong 

Alumni

Jean-Joseph Minviel

Postdoc 2017-2019
Jean Joseph now holds a permanent position at INRA in the UMR 1213 Herbivores

Cécile Adam

PhD student 2015-2017
Cécile now works at the general directorate for food at the Ministry of Agriculture

Yoann Mathevon

PhD student 2016-2018

Ahmad Albaaj

PhD student 2016-2018
​Ahmad is now a reaserch Fellow at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Montreall