First person – Timothée Gérard

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Timothée Gérard is first author on ‘ Monitoring reproduction in cryptic small mammals: using body temperature to identify parturition in an endangered rodent’, published in BiO. Timothée conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc at the Hubert Curien Pluridisciplinary Institute in Dr Caroline Habold's lab in Strasbourg, France. He is now a postdoc at Hainan University in the lab of Prof. Zhibin Zhang, Haikou City, China, investigating the challenges of rodent management, conservation, and regulation in environments shaped by intense human activity.