Jilda Alicia Caccavo

I am marine biologist who combines multidisciplinary approaches to study the population dynamics of and climate change impacts on Antarctic fish. Using data on life history and biophysical interactions, I build population structure hypotheses that I test using genomics, otolith chemistry, and biologging tools. To understand and project climate change impacts on fish, I take advantage of cutting-edge tools in the field of climate genomics, such as genotype-environment association analysis, genomic offset, and genomically-informed species distribution modeling. By working closely with organizations like CCAMLR and the IUCN, I am able to align my research questions and outputs with the needs of the scientific community and policymakers to inform conservation, fisheries management, and marine spatial planning efforts. A native New Yorker, my research has taken me from London to the north of Italy, the south of France to Berlin, before finally settling in Paris, where I am an Associate Professor at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN). There, I focus on fish species representative of the vast diversity of latitudinal gradients and trophic levels across the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean.