Rate My Professor Amandine Cornille

Amandine Cornille is Associate Professor of Biology at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her academic background includes a master’s degree from ENS Ulm in France and a PhD from Université Paris Sud completed between 2009 and 2012. She undertook postdoctoral research at Uppsala University from 2013 to 2015 and at ETH Zurich from 2015 to 2017. In 2017 she joined Université Paris-Saclay as a CNRS researcher before her appointment as Associate Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi in 2024.

Cornille leads research on the ecology and (epi-)genomic bases of responses by crop trees and their wild relatives to global changes, including climate change and parasite outbreaks. Her work integrates laboratory experiments, fieldwork, modeling, and population genomics to examine plant diversity, domestication, adaptation, gene flow, and coevolution, with a focus on domesticated fruit trees. Publications from her research have appeared in journals such as Trends in Genetics, Trends in Plant Science, PLoS Genetics, Nature Communications, Molecular Ecology, and Evolutionary Applications. She has received the PhD Young Researcher award in 2009, the CNRS Paoletti Prize in 2020, and multiple national and international grants including ATIP-CNRS Inserm, ANR JCJC, BNP Fondation Paribas Climate and Biodiversity Initiative, European LEADER, and Horizon 2020 funding. Cornille also participates in outreach and citizen science initiatives.