Dr Manon Hullot
SNSF Postdoctoral fellow
JURASSICA Museum
Route de Fontenais 21
2900 Porrentruy
Switzerland
manon.hullot[at]jurassica.ch
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Department of Geosciences
University of Fribourg
Chemin du musée 6
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
Manon Hullot is a paleobiologist specializing in large herbivores, and notably in the reconstruction of their paleoecology (diet, habitat). As part of the PIPE project, her work focuses on the impact of the Grande Coupure on the paleoecology of perissodactyls (rhinoceroses, palaeotheres).
Research thematics
- Evolution, paleobiology and paleobiogeography of Pan-perissodactyla
- Late Quaternary extinctions (megafauna)
- Evolution of terrestrial paleoecosystems
- Impact of perturbations (climatic changes, migration) on large mammals’ paleoecology
Keywords
Cenozoic, Paleoecology, Pan-perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae, Megaherbivores, Teeth, Dental wear, Enamel histology, Enamel hypoplasiaPublications
Professional background
| 2024–2025 | Postdoctoral fellow, CR2P, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France |
| 2022–2024 |
Postdoctoral fellow, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich, Germany
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Academic background
| 2018–2021 |
PhD in Paleobiology, University of Montpellier, France
PhD thesis: Analyses texturales des micro-usures et des hypoplasies de l’émail dentaire chez les Rhinocerotidae actuels et fossiles (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) : inférences paléobiologiques et paléoécologiques
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| 2015–2017 |
Master Biosciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon et Université Lyon 1 Claude Bernard, France
MSc thesis: A reference database on enamel microwear in extant rhinoceroses (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) and its relevance for fossil rhinocerotoid diet reconstruction (University of Montpellier, France)
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Funding
| 2024 |
SNSF Project (2025–2028) [CHF 410,000 / SNSF 10001379 / Postdoctoral fellow, project awarded to Damien Becker]
PIPE - Paleoecological Impacts of major crises on species diversification: insights from the high-resolution fossil record of Perissodactyla during the “Grande Coupure” in Europe
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| 2024 |
Small Grant of the Palaeontological Association (PA-SW202301)
Excavations: “Palaeontological researches in the middle Miocene of Gers (southwestern France)"
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| 2023 | SYNTHESYS grant (ES-TAF-TA4-781) |
| 2023 | SYNTHESYS grant (FR-TAF_Call4_057) |
| 2023 | SYNTHESYS grant (BETAF_C4_HULLOT) |
| 2022 | Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 2020 | SYNTHESYS grant (AT-TAF-65) |
Fieldwork
| 2025 | Polastron and Crastes (Middle Miocene), France (1 week) [co-PI] |
| 2024 | Polastron (Middle Miocene), France (2 weeks) [co-PI] |
| 2019 | Béon 1, Montréal du Gers (Early Miocene), France (1 week) [PI: Pierre-Olivier Antoine, ISEM] |
| 2019 | Dafnero-I (Pleistocene), Greece (2 weeks) [PI: Gildas Merceron, PALEVOPRIM] |