Our R&D team dedicated to offshore wind

Yoann applies ecosystem services, life‑cycle assessment, and social‑ecological systems frameworks to evaluate how marine renewable energy transforms coastal landscapes. Drawing on human geography and ecology, he produces decision‑ready tools and facilitates inclusive engagement with local communities.

Pierre studied environmental biology at the Nantes, La Rochelle and Rennes universities, completing a master’s degree in ecosystem approaches to fisheries at the Institut Agro in Rennes. His master’s internships focused on evaluating the quality of trophic models and developing and calculating indicators based on them. He then completed a thesis on the coupling of fleet dynamics and trophic network models in the Eastern English Channel. Since 2018, he has carried out several postdoctoral contracts on the modelling of trophic networks and fisheries, studying the effects of various pressures. At France Energies Marines since 2024, his main mission is to develop trophic tools and models and to study the health of ecosystems and the cumulative impacts of human activities and climate change, with a focus on the Eastern Channel coast.

Lise graduated from Ecole centrale Méditerranée, where she completed a generalist degree programme with specialisations in solid and fluid mechanics and environmental management. Between 2023 and 2025, she completed this course with a double degree in ocean engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), focusing on physical and biogeochemical oceanography, as well as marine population dynamics. Lise began her research career in her second year of engineering school, through an internship focusing on the impact of anthropogenic noise pollution on fish and invertebrates, a topic for which she developed a particular interest and which she is now helping to reintegrate into France Energies Marines’ ecological models.

Her end-of-studies internship at the Institute focused on developing an individual-centred model of fleet dynamics in the Mediterranean, using socio-economic data to better understand and represent fishing behaviour. At the end of this internship, she continued as an R&D engineer in food web modelling and data analysis. Since then, she has been working on ecosystem modelling, assessing the impact of offshore wind turbines and studying the food web functioning of marine ecosystems

With over seven years of experience, Rhoda holds a degree in environmental public policy from Sciences Po, supplemented by a PhD in environmental sociology from Université Paris Nanterre in 2018. She began her career as a carbon footprint consultant and then as a researcher in public policy, identifying levers and supporting adaptive and integrated water resource governance at different territorial levels. It was at the CNRS that she joined the ANR Groundwater ARENA project, where she honed her skills in mapping stakeholder networks and analyzing local collective action processes in the implementation of public environmental and energy policies.

Rhoda has been at France Energies Marines since 2018 and currently holds the position of researcher in sociology applied to offshore wind. In this context, she has deepened her knowledge of marine and coastal socio-ecosystems, their trajectories of transformation and resilience in the context of offshore wind project planning and implementation. She has developed expertise in social life cycle analysis. She has participated in various French and European R&D projects such as: APPEAL, DTOCEANPLUS, LIF-OWI, NESTORE, EOLENMER, FLOATFARM, FISHOREMAN, ORESA and COMPASS.

Manon holds a master’s degree in marine and coastal sciences from Université de Bretagne Occidentale. Following a posting aboard a tuna seiner in the Indian Ocean as a fisheries observer, she joined FROM Nord as a Project Manager in 2015. This professional experience allowed her to coordinate between fishermen and maritime activities, as well as to develop and coordinate collaborative research projects. In 2020, she joined the international NGO MSC, a sustainable fishing certification program, and worked in collaboration with the industry in the Mediterranean. She joined France Energies Marines in 2021 as a project management officer to implement best practices and consolidate the standardization of the project management process within the Institute. In 2025, she joined the Ecosystems and Society department as European Project Manager. In particular, she is responsible for coordinating the European COMPASS project, which brings together 14 partners from 8 countries.

With over eight years of experience, Marie Le Marchand holds degrees in Organismal Biology from the University of Rennes and Earth and Universe Sciences from the University of Western Brittany, complemented by a Master’s degree in Coastal Ecology from the University of La Rochelle and a PhD in Marine Ecology from the Doctoral School of Marine and Coastal Sciences, which she obtained in 2020. She began her career at France Energies Marines during her doctoral studies, before continuing with a postdoctoral fellowship. At France Energies Marines since 2017, Marie currently holds the position of Ecosystem Approach Researcher, specializing in the North Atlantic – Western Channel and South Atlantic coasts. In this role, she has deepened her knowledge of ecosystem modeling, the specific characteristics and challenges of Brittany, and climate change, through her participation in various projects such as APPEAL, WINDSERV, and NESTORE.