Ophélie Ronce is CNRS Research Director at the Institut des sciences de l'évolution in Montpellier, where she heads the "Evolution & Demography" team. She defended her thesis there in 1999, and was recruited in 2001 after a post-doctorate at the University of Texas. She was a visiting professor at PWIAS in Vancouver in 2019. Her research topics focus broadly on the interactions between evolutionary and demographic dynamics, with a quantitative genetics and theoretical evolutionary ecology approach, which she applies to better understand both fundamental questions on the evolution of biodiversity (How do ranges evolve? When can evolution prevent extinction?) and the consequences of contemporary global change. She has led two multi-partner ANR projects (5) on these themes. She was president of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (2019-2021) and non-American vice-president of the Society for the Study of Evolution (2020-2022) and co-organized the second World Congress of Evolutionary Biology in Montpellier in 2018.
