Les recherches de Zoé portent sur l’influence du stress hydrique sur le fonctionnement physiologique et moléculaire des plantes. Elle s’intéresse particulièrement aux thématiques de recherche fondamentale et appliquée liées à l’acclimatation et à l’adaptation des arbres et des plantes dans le contexte des changements globaux.
Zoe began her academic career in France, in her native region, Franche-Comté, at the UFR ST in Besançon, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in biology-ecology. She then pursued a master’s degree in ecophysiology and ecotoxicology, with a focus on plants, at Sorbonne University in Paris, where she began to specialize in the impact of water stress on plants. Subsequently, she completed a doctorate in forest ecology and molecular biology in Quebec, at UQO. Her doctoral research focused on the study of trees in temperate forests at both the macroscopic (ecophysiology) and molecular (transcriptomics) scales in various water contexts. Since January 2025, Zoe have been working as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Morgane Urli’s laboratory (UQAM), as part of the pan-Canadian DIVERSE project. More specifically, her work explores the trade-offs between the efficiency and hydraulic safety of trees and wood density.