Between my MSc and my PhD, I worked as a research professionnal for Takuvik International Joint Program and the French Polar Institure (IPEV) on a research project studying molecules that can help track energy flows in marine food webs of Antarctica. During this time, I participated in a mission on the French icebreaker Astrolabe and at the land-based research station Dumont d'Urville in Terre Adélie (French Southern and Antarctic Territories). Some of my work was also based in Hobart, Tasmania.