ECR Spotlight – Nicolas Séon

Abstract

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology during our centenary year but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Nicolas Séon is an author on ‘ Determination of water balance maintenance in Orcinus orca and Tursiops truncatus using oxygen isotopes’, published in JEB. Nicolas conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Peggy Vincent, Dr Romain Amiot and Prof. Sylvain Charbonnier's lab at Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris (CR2P), France. He begins a post-doc in February 2024 in the lab of Dr Mia Wege and Prof. Trevor McIntyre at University of South Africa (UNISA)/University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa, investigating the ecology and physiology of extant and fossil marine vertebrates using isotope geochemistry.