Affiliations
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Postal address
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Room: A.03.05
Contact details
Email: anne-celine.granjon@idiv.de
Phone: +49 341 9733243
Websites
Research focus
I am an evolutionary ecologist using population and quantitative genetic data to investigate how ecological gradients shape genetic diversity and evolutionary potential across species. My work spans local to global scales and focuses on broad patterns in genetic variation, range-edge dynamics, and responses to environmental and human-driven change. I am interested in integrative, comparative approaches that link ecological context with evolutionary processes across diverse taxa.
I hold a BSc in Biology and Organisms from the University of Montpellier and a double MSc in Evolutionary Biology from the Universities of Montpellier and Uppsala. During my PhD, I focused on the genetic monitoring of chimpanzee and gorilla populations, collecting and analyzing non-invasive genetic samples (i.e., faecal samples) to estimate population size and growth in focal populations. After an extensive career break (due to a combination of department closure, maternity leave, and the COVID-19 pandemic), I returned to research with the ambition to reconnect to population processes at a larger scale. In my first postdoctoral project at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, I used publicly available microsatellite genotypes of vertebrate populations to investigate worldwide patterns of genetic diversity across latitudes and life-history strategies. I am also involved in the sRED Working group “Range Edge Dynamics”, in which I investigate the distribution of selection strength, phenotypic variation and heritability across species ranges in Vertebrates, vascular plants and insects.
My current research investigates genomic footprints of urbanization in blue and great tits, a Postdoc position funded by the Walter Benjamin Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG), in collaboration with Prof. Marta Szulkin (Anthropocene Biology Lab) and Prof. Susanne Fritz.
iDiv Publications
Publications 2025
Ostridge, Harrison J., Fontsere, Claudia, Lizano, Esther, Soto, Daniela C., Schmidt, Joshua M., Saxena, Vrishti, Alvarez-Estape, Marina, Barratt, Christopher D., Gratton, Paolo, Bocksberger, Gaëlle, Lester, Jack D., Dieguez, Paula, Agbor, Anthony, Angedakin, Samuel, Assumang, Alfred Kwabena, Bailey, Emma, Barubiyo, Donatienne, Bessone, Mattia, Brazzola, Gregory, Chancellor, Rebecca, Cohen, Heather, Coupland, `, Danquah, Emmanuel, Deschner, Tobias, Dotras, Laia, Dupain, Jef, Egbe, Villard Ebot, Granjon, Anne-Céline, Head, Josephine, Hedwig, Daniela, Hermans, Veerle, Hernandez-Aguilar, R. Adriana, Jeffery, Kathryn J., Jones, Sorrel, Junker, Jessica, Kadam, Parag, Kaiser, Michael, Kalan, Ammie K., Kambere, Mbangi, Kienast, Ivonne, Kujirakwinja, Deo, Langergraber, Kevin E., Lapuente, Juan, Larson, Bradley, Laudisoit, Anne, Lee, Kevin C., Llana, Manuel, Maretti, Giovanna, Martín, Rumen, Meier, Amelia C., Morgan, David, Neil, Emily, Nicholl, Sonia, Nixon, Stuart, Normand, Emmanuelle, Orbell, Christopher, Ormsby, Lucy Jayne, Orume, Robinson, Pacheco, Liliana, Preece, Jodie, Regnaut, Sebastien, Robbins, Martha M., Rundus, Aaron, Sanz, Crickette, Sciaky, Lilah, Sommer, Volker, Stewart, Fiona A., Tagg, Nikki, Tédonzong, Luc Roscelin, van Schijndel, Joost, Vendras, Elleni, Wessling, Erin G., Willie, Jacob, Wittig, Roman M., Yuh, Yisa Ginath, Yurkiw, Kyle, Vigilant, Linda, Piel, Alex K., Boesch, Christophe, Kühl, Hjalmar S., Dennis, Megan Y., Marques-Bonet, Tomas, Arandjelovic, Mimi, Andrés, Aida M. (2025): Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees. Science
Tuyisingize, Deogratias, Kulik, Lars, Assou, Delagnon, Zausa, Diorne, Kamga, Solange, Mundi, Onella, Heinicke, Stefanie, Kone, Inza, Mucyo, Samedi Jean Pierre, Sop, Tenekwetche, Boesch, Christophe, Stephens, Colleen, Agbor, Anthony, Angedakin, Samuel, Bailey, Emma, Bessone, Mattia, Coupland, Charlotte, Head, Josephine, Deschner, Tobias, Dieguez, Paula, Egbe, Villard Ebot, Granjon, Anne-Céline, Hicks, Thurston Cleveland, Jones, Sorrel, Kalan, Ammie K., Langergraber, Kevin E., Lapuente, Juan, Lee, Kevin C., Lynn, Laura K., Maldonado, Nuria, McCarthy, Maureen S., Meier, Amelia, Ormsby, Lucy Jayne, Piel, Alex K., Sciaky, Lilah, Sommer, Volker, Stewart, Fiona A., Wessling, Erin G., Widness, Jane, Wittig, Roman M., Strohbach, Pauline, Arandjelovic, Mimi, van der Hoek, Yntze, Kühl, Hjalmar S. (2025): Complex Variation in Afrotropical Mammal Communities With Human Impact. Ecology and Evolution
Publications 2024
Arandjelovic, Mimi, Stephens, Colleen R., Dieguez, Paula, Maldonado, Nuria, Bocksberger, Gaëlle, Després-Einspenner, Marie-Lyne, Debetencourt, Benjamin, Estienne, Vittoria, Kalan, Ammie K., McCarthy, Maureen S., Granjon, Anne-Céline, Städele, Veronika, Harder, Briana, Hacker, Lucia, Landsmann, Anja, Lynn, Laura K., Pfund, Heidi, Ročkaiová, Zuzana, Sigler, Kristeena, Widness, Jane, Wilken, Heike, Buzharevski, Antonio, Goffe, Adeelia S., Havercamp, Kristin, Luncz, Lydia L., Sirianni, Giulia, Wessling, Erin G., Wittig, Roman M., Boesch, Christophe, Kühl, Hjalmar S. (2024): Highly precise community science annotations of video camera-trapped fauna in challenging environments. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
Short CV
2026-present: DFG-funded Postdoctoral researcher (Walter Benjamin Programm), Biodiversity in the Anthropocene Group, iDiv, Leipzig, Germany.
2024-2026: Postdoctoral researcher, Synthesis Centre for Biodiversity Sciences (sDiv), iDiv, Leipzig, Germany.
2020–2024 Maternity & Career break.
2015–2020 PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Primatology.
2012–2015 Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Primatology.
2010–2012 Double Master Degree in Evolutionary Biology, University of Montpellier 2 (France) and University of Uppsala (Sweden).
2007–2010 Bachelor degree in Biology of Organisms, University of Montpellier 2 (France).