Sylvie Gaudron is an associated Professor in France since 2007 at Sorbonne University (SU) in Paris, where she was teaching biology and ecology to undergraduate and Master students and was carrying her research until 2014. Since 2015, she has been carrying out her research on the Channel Sea in the Laboratory of Oceanology and Geoscience (LOG) in the Marine Station at Wimereux that belongs to the University of Lille (France), but still teaching in Paris (SU). From September 2025, her new employer will be University of Lille, where she will teach ecology and marine biology to undergraduate and Master’s students as still an associated professor, and she will still carry out her research at the LOG laboratory. 

Her primary expertise is life-history traits of marine invertebrate species from coastal and deep-sea species such as chemosymbiotrophic species of Mollusk bivalves (Vesicomyidae, Thyasiridae, Bathymodiolinae etc.) and Annelid polychaetes (Siboglinids). Sylvie Gaudron is a member of the international DOSI group (Deep-Ocean Stewardships Initiative) since 2014 and involved in the international Challenger-150 ten-year program as part of the Decade of Ocean Science (2021-2030). She was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre du mérite maritime by the French Minister of the Sea on 27th of January 2021. Sylvie Gaudron did her education from Bsc. Honor to Master in Oceanography in France but she did her Ph D in marine biology in University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England. 

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