Welcome to my research space!
Welcome to my research space!
I am an environmental researcher interested in how organisms and ecosystems respond to human pressures. Over the years, this broad question has taken me across species, ecosystems and biological scales, using approaches ranging from behavioural ecology and physiology to bioacoustics and environmental data analysis.
I was trained in biology in France and completed a master's in Predictive and Integrative Animal Biology (PRIAM) at AgroParisTech and Université Paris-Saclay. I then moved into aquatic ecology for my PhD in ecology at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Étienne, France (2019–2022), where bioacoustics became a central part of my research. I studied the effects of anthropogenic noise on freshwater organisms, from individual behaviour and species interactions to whole plankton communities.
In 2023, I moved to Norway to join the Marine Bioacoustics and Ecology Lab at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), first as a postdoctoral researcher (2023–2025) and then as a researcher (2025–2026). My research focused on Atlantic salmon, combining behavioural, physiological and acoustic approaches to investigate responses to vessel noise. In parallel, I expanded my research beyond aquatic ecosystems to explore soundscapes in Norwegian national parks, integrating acoustic monitoring, biodiversity assessments and visitors’ perceptions of nature. In October 2026, I joined the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) as a temporary researcher to further develop this work.
This path has made me comfortable moving between research topics, methods and study systems. I enjoy working with people from different backgrounds, bringing different types of data and expertise together, and finding the best way to answer a question rather than being attached to one particular method or study system.
I am currently based in Trondheim, Norway, while remaining open to where the next interesting research question or collaboration might take me.
EMILIE ROJAS, Phd.