Eneour Puill Stephan
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Natural and Health Sciences
Zayed University
United Arab Emirates
Biography
Eneour Puill Stephan marine biologist with extensive fieldwork experience, particularly working with reef corals (coral reproduction, aquarium experiments, and monitoring). After undertaking a Masters in Marine Biology (Fish physiology) at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (France), he obtained my PhD in Marine Biology (Coral biology) from James Cook University (Australia) in 2011. His PhD thesis focused on the self-nonself recognition and chimerism in reef building corals that involved investigations at all life-stages of the coral (larvae, recruits, juveniles, adults). He then stayed in Australia and worked for 5 years at the Australian Institute of Marine Science as a Research Assistant, mainly working on coral reproduction and husbandry. He then worked as a coral spawning consultant. In 2016, he took a post-doctoral position at the Smithsonian Institute, and was based in Hawaii and French Polynesia where he focused my work on optimizing cryopreservation and coral reef restoration techniques. He now work here at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi as a post-doctoral researcher to establish coral reef restoration techniques for Arabian Gulf corals and to help protect the coral reefs in the Abu Dhabi region.
Research Interest
Eneour Puill Stephan research interest includes coral reef restoration, Coral reproduction, Coral husbandry in aquarium and in field nurseries.
Publications
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van Oppen MJH, Puill-Stephan E, Lundgren P, De’ath G, and Bay LK (2014) First generation fitness consequences of interpopulational hybridisation in a Great Barrier Reef coral and its implications for assisted migration management. Coral Reefs.
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Puill-Stephan E, Willis BL, van Herwerden L, van Oppen MJH (2009) Chimerism in Wild Adult Populations of the Broadcast Spawning Coral Acropora millepora on the Great Barrier Reef. PLoS ONE 4: e7751.
