Trained as a population ecologist, his interests span organismal biology and ecology; behavior and population dynamics of consumer-resource interactions; the sensory ecology of mimetism; flow sensing in biotic interactions; locomotion in granular materials and at the air-water interface, physicochemical transport in olfaction and biologically inspired microtechnology.

Roxane Roussel holds a State Diploma in Architecture from the ENSA Marseille, with a research mention, and has since worked as a study engineer at CICRP and MAP-gamsau, focusing on the annotation and semantic enrichment of heterogeneous heritage data. She is currently involved in the construction of a digital report for the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral as a member of the MAP laboratory.