Violette Chiara

Wykształcenie:
2019 : Ph.D. in ethology, "Ontogenesis and sociality in spiders", University of Toulouse 3(France).
2016 : Master "Animal and Human Behavior", option Ecology. University of Rennes 1 (France).
2014 : Bachelor "Sciences de la Vie et de l'Environnement", option Biologie des Organismes.University of Lorraine (France).

Zainteresowania badawcze
My research focuses on the evolution and development of social behavior across species. I work with various model organisms, including spiders and fish, to investigate how social interactions emerge, develop, and evolve. By combining behavioral experiments, physiological analyses, and modeling approaches, I aim to uncover the mechanisms driving sociality and collective behavior.
I am also the developer of AnimalTA. The aim of AnimalTA is to provide researchers with a free and user-friendly video tracking program easily accessible. Learn more bout AnimalTA!

(Z)Realizowane granty i projekty
1. 2023 – 3 year post-doctoral fellowship granted by the Polish Academy of Science (SONATAgrant).
2. May 2023 - Young Researcher Award of the French Society for the Study of Animal Behavior.
3. 2019 - 2-year post-doctoral fellowship granted by the Fyssen Foundation (France).
4. 2018 - IUSSI travel grant to participate in the 18th International Congress of the IUSSI(International Union for the Study of Social Insects) in Guarujá, Brazil.2016 –
5. Doctoral scholarship granted by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research andInnovation (SEVAB doctoral school competition).

Supervisor of PhD students
Tristan Robineau – 2023 - 2027

Selected publications
1. Chiara, V. (2025). Personality expression is shaped by the early experienced social context in predatory mites. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(1), 7-10.
2. Kim, S.-Y., Chiara, V., Álvarez-Quintero, N., da Silva, A., & Velando, A. (2023). Maternal effect senescence via reduced DNA repair ability in the three-spined stickleback. Molecular Ecology, 32, 4648–4659.
3. Chiara V. & Kim S.Y. (2023). AnimalTA: a highly flexible and easy-to-use program for tracking and analyzing animal movement in different environments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14, 1699– 1707.
4. Sanmartín-Villar I., Cruz da Silva E., Chiara V., Cordero-Rivera A. & Lorenzo-Carballa M.O. (2022). Genetic divergence and aggressiveness within a supercolony of the invasive ant Linepithema humile. NeoBiota. 77: 125-153.
5. Chiara V., Arrufat P. & Jeanson R. (2022). A variable refractory period increases collective performance in noisy environments. PNAS. 119, e2115103119.
6. Kim S.Y., Chiara V., Álvarez-Quintero N., & Velando A. (2022). Mitochondrial DNA content in eggs as a maternal effect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289, 20212100.
7. Chiara V., Velando A. & Kim SY. (2022). Relationships between male secondary sexual traits, physiological state and offspring viability in the three-spined stickleback. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 22, 4.
8. Álvarez-Quintero N., Chiara V. & Kim S.Y (2021). Trap versus net: Behavioural sampling bias caused by capture method in three-spined sticklebacks. Behavioural Processes. 92, 104504.
9. Chiara V. & Jeanson R. (2020). Influence of past and current social contexts on hunting behaviour in spiderlings. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 74, 87.
10. Chiara V., Ramon-Portugal F. & Jeanson R. (2019). Social intolerance is a not a cause, but a consequence of dispersal in spiders. PLOS Biology. 17, e3000319.