Jean-Renaud Boisserie specializes in the evolution of large African mammals. He directs an interdisciplinary research program working in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley, with the objective of understanding the interactions between environmental changes and the evolution of organisms (including humans) in this valley over the course of the last four million years. He currently works in the paleontology lab at l’Université de Poitiers and at CNRS, PALEVOPRIM. He has also worked in Addis Ababa at the French Center for Ethiopian Studies, at UC Berkeley, and at the Paris National Museum of Natural History.
