Natural Resources Institute

Staff

Name Details
Dr Helena Posthumus
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3199
Visiting Fellow in Environment & Development
Dr John E Orchard
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: BSc (Hons), PhD
  • Biography:

    2015 – present: Director of Postgraduate Research Studies
    2010 – 2015: Director of Research and Enterprise
    2001 – 2010: Group Leader of Enterprise, Trade and Food Management Group, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, United Kingdom.
    1996 – 2001: Deputy Head of Food Systems Department and Head of Horticulture Group, NRI.
    1996: Acting Head of Crop Utilisation Department, NRI.
    1994 to April 1996: Head of Post-harvest Horticulture Group, NRI.
    1991 to 1993: Head of Food and Processing Section, NRI.
    1988-91: Overseas Development Administration, UK Government. Technical Co-operation Officer (Biochemist/Plant Physiologist), Kenya Tea Research Foundation. Investigating more efficient methods of tea manufacture in Estate and Smallholder factories, and yield and physiology of the tea bush under different environment.
    1986-88: Senior Research Officer, Liverpool University. Contract research on physiological plant pathological problems of cacao for chocolate industry.
    1980-85: Overseas Development Administration, UK Government.
    Technical Co-operation Officer (Plant Physiologist) at the Agricultural Research Institute of Ecuador undertaking research in the yield reductions of cocoa due to drought and influence of irrigation.
    1978-80: National Cacao Research Centre, Brazil, Experimental Officer, studying fruit growth and development.
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    I have an interest in the post-harvest management of beverage, cereal and horticulture crops, with a focus on research, advisory and training projects covering the supply chain with support to farmers, traders and support services. Considerable experience in research project formulation, administration, management and appraisal. NRI Currently supervising PhD students in the following research areas:

    • Structuring Client Voice in Microfinance Institutions in Kenya.
    • Evaluating the Impact of Climate Change on Post-Harvest Quality of Perishables.
    • Optimising the production of biofuels from algae.
    • Reasons for multiple loans in microfinance and their effect on the repayment performance.
    • Consumers' perception of food safety in the supply chain.
  • Awards:
    • Member of Tropical Association of Agriculture
  • Selected Publications:
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3199
Visiting Fellow
Dr Joshua Wesana Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3199
Visiting Fellow
Dr Moritz Bömer
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: MSc, PhD
  • Biography:

    Dr Moritz Bömer completed his Diplomingenieur (equivalent to MSc) in Biotechnology at the University of Münster, Germany in 2007, gaining extensive knowledge and experience in molecular biology techniques. Moving to UK in 2007, Dr Bömer has initiated his career in scientific research in January 2008 at the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), working as a Research Technician on a BBSRC funded project with the aim to establish the link between jasmonate signalling and the cell cycle. In September 2009, he was awarded the PhD SouthWest London Academic Network Studentship at RHUL. The project based within the department of Plant Molecular Sciences under the supervision of Dr Alessandra Devoto. The title of the PhD project was "Investigation on the Mechanism of Action of Jasmonates on Growth and Metabolite Production in Arabidopsis and their Potential Application to Cancer Therapy". During 3 years, Dr Bömer employed transcriptomic, metabolomic and proteomic approaches to gain new insights into how jasmonates (JAs) can stunt plant growth under stress conditions, and more specifically how JA-signalling regulates the plant cell cycle (Noir and Bömer et al., 2013). Additionally, Dr Bömer developed a novel bioassay for the identification of JA-regulated secondary metabolites with potential anticancer activity. During his PhD, Dr Bömer established effective relationships and highly productive collaborations with Prof Nick Smirnoff at the University of Exeter and Dr Amanda Harvey at Brunel University. Moreover, in 2010 Dr Bömer presented his work at the 21st International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR) in Yokohama (Japan, June 2010) and also took part at the BBSRC/Tokyo Embassy International Workshop "Inference and Modelling of Regulatory Networks in Multicellular systems" at the RIKEN institute (Japan, June 2010). Following his PhD, Dr Bömer worked as Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Molecular Plant Pathology with Dr Laurence Bindschedler at RHUL on the EPSRC funded project 'Silencing Targeted Effector in Planta (STEP)' with the aim to silence effector proteins from the obligate fungal pathogen barley powdery mildew based on the host induced gene silencing (HIGS) approach. In October 2013, Dr Bömer joined the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, as a Research Fellow on a project that aims to identify activatable endogenous pararetrovirus (EPRV) sequences in yam breeding lines.

    Keywords: Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Virology, Endogenous Pararetrovirus, Yam Viruses
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Moritz Bömer is currently committed on the identification of activatable endogenous pararetrovirus (EPRV) sequences in yam breeding lines. Yams are an important food crop in many tropical and sub-tropical countries, particularly in West Africa. Yams are propagated vegetatively through their tubers, which lead to an accumulation of tuber-borne diseases in farmers planting material and subsequent serious crop yield losses. The economically-important tuber-borne diseases are caused by viruses, and the only effective method of controlling these virus diseases is to use virus-free planting material (clean 'seed' yams). In addition to the normal virus infection process, some badnavirus species appear to be integrated into the host genome of some yam species. Integrated badnavirus sequences are termed 'endogenous pararetroviruses' (EPRVs). Of particular concern is that many EPRVs have been shown to be 'activatable', i.e. able to replicate and initiate virus infections de novo. Activation is considered to be triggered by the epigenetic modifications that occur during hybridization of parental genomes as well as environmental stresses. Therefore it is essential to improve existing diagnostic tools for broad-specific detection of viruses and EPRVs. The yam lines containing 'activatable' EPRVs will need to be removed from the multiplication process as they cannot be 'cleaned' of badnaviruses and will pose a serious long term threat to the genuinely virus-free yam lines.
  • Selected Publications:
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3237
Visiting Fellow
Dr Nanam Dziedzoave
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3199
Visiting Fellow at NRI
Dr Sarah Arnold
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: MA (Cantab), PhD (Lond)
  • Biography:

    Dr Sarah Arnold joined the University of Greenwich in 2010, after completing her PhD in sensory ecology in the Chittka Lab at Queen Mary, University of London. Her background at Queen Mary and prior to that at the University of Cambridge, was in pollinator behaviour (Dyer et al. 2006, Nature) and the evolution of flower colours (Arnold et al. 2010, PLoS ONE). Dr Arnold investigated trends in the colour composition of flowering plant communities, and the responses of bees to flower colours under variable light conditions, finding that bees show preferences for familiar illuminant types when foraging (Arnold et al. 2012, J Exp Biol).

    Since joining the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), Dr Arnold has continued to develop her interest in pollinators, studying the effects of the composition of pollen and nectar (Arnold et al. 2014, J Chem Ecol) on pollinators, their use of odour cues (Arnold et al. in prep) and how environment influences pollinator populations (Arnold et al. 2018, Agr Ecosys Environ). Additionally, she works on the ecology and behaviour of stored product pests, investigating the factors determining how they orient towards food material (Arnold et al. 2012, PLoS ONE; 2015, Bull Ent Res; 2016, Peer J) and the potential of pesticidal plants and other control methods in pre- and post-harvest pest management. Dr Arnold is particularly interested in how the behaviour of storage pests can be affected by their own life history (e.g. age, morph) and interactions between different cue types (colour, odour).

    Dr Arnold is a member of NRI's Agriculture, Health & Environment Department, working primarily with the pest behaviour, chemical ecology and ecosystems services research groups. She been lead or co-author on publications about flower colour evolution, insect ecology, and pollinator and storage pest behaviour in international peer-reviewed journals, and is one of the developers and managers of the Floral Reflectance Database.
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Dr Arnold is interested in insect behaviour and ecology, in particular the interactions between economically important insects (pests, pollinators, etc.) and their environment and food. Key research questions that interest her include:

    • How do habitats and ecosystems influence abundance and species richness of insects of agricultural importance?
    • How do pests of stored products orient towards host material?
    • How do they respond behaviourally to attractive and repellent cues, including pesticidal plants and other possible control strategies?
    • How do botanical insecticides and pesticidal plants interact with pre- and post-harvest pests and non-target invertebrates such as bees?
    • How do pollinating insects identify food using visual information and other cues, such as the effects of plant appearance or variable illumination on foraging technique?
    • What happens when they find that food: how does the composition of different plants' nectar and pollen affect pollinator preferences and fitness?
    • Ecology of pollinators in the UK and abroad. In particular, how can pollinator populations be supported and safeguarded in different environments?
  • Awards:
    • Member of the Royal Entomological Society and South-East Regional Secretary
    • Member of the British Ecological Society
    • Early Career Researcher Excellence Award 2014/15
  • Selected Publications:
    • Ojija F., Arnold S.E.J. & Treydte A.C. (2021) Plant competition as a biocontrol method? Possible management tools for suppressing Parthenium hysterophorus. Rangelands. doi: 10.1016/j.rala.2020.12.004
    • Elisante F., Ndakidemi P.A., Arnold S.E.J., Belmain S.R., Gurr G.M., Darbyshire I., Xie G., Tumbo J. & Stevenson P.C. (2020) Insect pollination is important but not limiting in a smallholder bean-farming system. PeerJ. 8:e10102. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10102
    • Ings T.C. & Arnold S.E.J. (2020) Editorial overview: Pollinator ecology in the Anthropocene. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 38:iii-iv
    • Mkenda P.A., Ndakidemi P.A., Stevenson P.C., Arnold S.E.J., Darbyshire I., Belmain S.R., Priebe J., Johnson A.C., Tumbo J & Gurr G.M. (2020) Knowledge gaps among smallholder farmers hinder adoption of conservation biological control. Biocontrol Science and Technology. 30(3):256-277. doi: 10.1080/09583157.2019.1707169
    • Stathers T.E., Arnold S.E.J., Rumney C.J. & Hopson C. (2020) Measuring the nutritional cost of insect infestation of stored maize and cowpea. Food Security. 12:285–308. doi: 10.1007/s12571-019-00997-w
    • Arnold S.E.J., Forbes S.J., Hall D.R., Farman D.I., Bridgemohan P., Spinelli G.R., Bray D.P., Perry G.B., Grey L., Belmain S.R. & Stevenson P.C. (2019) Floral odors and the interaction between pollinating ceratopogonid midges and cacao Journal of Chemical Ecology. 45(10):869-878. doi: 10.1007/s10886-019-01118-9
    • Arnold S.E.J. & Chittka L. (2019) Commentary: Flower colour diversity seen through the eyes of pollinators. Annals of Botany. 124(2):viii-ix. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcz107
    • Elisante F., Ndakidemi P.A., Arnold S.E.J., Belmain S.R., Gurr G.M., Darbyshire I., Xi, G., Tumbo J. & Stevenson P.C. (2019) Enhancing knowledge among smallholders on pollinators and supporting field margins for sustainable food security. Journal of Rural Studies. 70:75-86. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.07.004
    • Mahot H.C., Mahob R.J., Hall D.R., Arnold S.E.J., Fotso K.A., Membang G., Ewane N., Kemga A., Fiaboe K.K.M., Bilong B.C.F. & Hanna R. (2019) Trap colour affects catches of brown cocoa mirid, Sahlbergella singularis Haglund, in sex pheromone traps in Cameroon cocoa plantations. Crop Protection. 104959. doi: 10.1016/j.cropro.2019.104959
    • Mkenda P.A., Ndakidemi P.A., Stevenson P.C., Arnold S.E.J., Belmain S. R., Chidege M., Gurr G.M. & Woolley V.C. (2019) Characterization of hymenopteran parasitoids of Aphis fabae in an African smallholder bean farming system through sequencing of COI ‘mini-barcodes’. Insects. 10(10):331. doi: 10.3390/insects10100331
    • Mkenda, P.A., Ndakidemi, P.A., Stevenson, P.C., Arnold, S.E.J., Belmain, S.R., Chidege, M. & Gurr, G.M. (2019) Field margin vegetation in tropical African bean systems harbours diverse natural enemies for biological pest control in adjacent crops. Sustainability. 11(22):6399. doi: 10.3390/su11226399
    • Mkenda P.A., Ndakidemi P.A., Mbega E., Stevenson P.C., Arnold S.E.J., Gurr G.M., & Belmain S.R. (2019) Multiple ecosystem services from field margin vegetation for ecological sustainability in agriculture: scientific evidence and knowledge gaps. PeerJ. 7:e8091. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8091
    • Ojija F., Arnold S.E.J. & Treydte A.C. (2019) Impacts of alien invasive Parthenium hysterophorus on flower visitation by insects to co-flowering plants. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 13(5):719-734. doi: 10.1007/s11829-019-09701-3
    • Ojija F., Arnold S.E.J. & Treydte A.C. (2019) Bio-herbicide potential of Desmodium uncinatum crude leaf extract against the invasive plant species Parthenium hysterophorus. Biological Invasions.  21(12):3641-3653. doi: 10.1007/s10530-019-02075-w
    • Scott-Brown A.S., Arnold S.E.J., Kite G., Farrell I.W., Farman D.I., Collins D.W. & Stevenson P.C. (2019) Mechanisms in mutualisms: A chemically mediated thrips pollination strategy in common elder. Planta. 250(1): 367-379. doi: 10.1007/s00425-019-03176-5
    • Bergamo P.J., Telles F.J., Arnold S.E.J. & Brito V.L.G. (2018) Flower colour within communities shifts from overdispersed to clustered along an alpine altitudinal gradient. Oecologia. 188(1):223-235. doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4204-5
    • Arnold S.E.J., Bridgemohan P., Perry G.B., Spinelli G.R., Pierre B., Haughton C., Dockery O., Murray F., Grey L., Murphy S.T., Belmain S.R. & Stevenson P.C. (2018) The significance of climate in the pollinator dynamics of a tropical agroforestry system Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 254:1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2017.11.013
    • Arnold S.E.J., Stevenson P.C. & Belmain S.R. (2016) Shades of yellow: interactive effects of visual and odour cues in a pest beetle. PeerJ. 4:e2219. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2219
    • McCarthy E.W., Arnold S.E.J., Chittka, L., Le Comber S.C., Verity R., Dodsworth, S., Knapp S., Kelly L.J., Chase M.W., Baldwin I.T., Kovařík A., Mhiri C., Taylor, L. & Leitch A.R. (2015) The effect of polyploidy and hybridisation on the evolution of floral colour in Nicotiana (Solanaceae). Annals of Botany. 115(7):1117-31. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcv048
    • Arnold S.E.J., Stevenson P.C. & Belmain S.R. (2015) Responses to colour and host odour cues in three cereal pest species, in the context of ecology and control. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 105(4):417-25. doi: 10.1017/S0007485315000346
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3199
Visiting Fellow
Dr Sharon Van Brunschot
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3199
Visiting Fellow in Agricultural Entomology and Plant Pathology
Dr Tim Chancellor
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: PhD, MSc, BA (Hons)
  • Biography:

    Dr Tim Chancellor is a specialist in the capacity strengthening of individuals, organisations, and institutions.  His early work was in sustainable pest and disease management in rice, banana, groundnut, and tomato and he had long-term assignments in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.  He was also involved in several research and consultancy activities in Latin America.  He led NRI’s Plant, Animal & Human Health Group from 2001 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2021 coordinated the Institute’s work on capacity strengthening and partnership development.  He helped to develop and manage the £11m continent-wide Strengthening Capacity for Agricultural Research and Development in Africa project funded by DFID (now FCDO).  He has maintained his research interests in sustainable agricultural systems and from 2014-2017 he acted as Liaison Scientist for the McKnight Foundation’s Collaborative Crop Research Program in southern Africa.  He has a long-standing involvement in Agrinatura, the European Alliance on Knowledge for Agricultural Development, and has worked extensively with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Africa (RUFORUM).  He is currently a member or RUFORUM’s International Advisory Panel.
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Tim has contributed to the development of new approaches to capacity strengthening of organizations and institutions, including methodologies for institutional analysis and change management. A key challenge is how to address the capacity needs of the different types of organizations involved in agricultural innovation platforms so that they can work together effectively and achieve their particular objectives. New insights have been gained through initiatives such as the Platform for Africa-Europe Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development.

    Tim is interested in the development and application of ecological approaches to insect pest and disease management. His work has involved integrating knowledge on the population dynamics of insect vectors of crop diseases with an understanding of temporal and spatial patterns of disease spread in order to bring about improved disease control. He has also carried out research on the economic, social and cultural factors which influence crop management decisions and on pest and disease control practices utilized by resource-poor farmers.

    He is interested in exploring ways to make agricultural information more relevant and more accessible to smallholder farmers, especially those located in remote areas. A particular interest is how to harness the potential of new information and communication technologies for the benefit of smallholders.
  • Awards:

    • In December 2022 Tim received a Recognition Award from RUFORUM for services to higher education and agricultural development in Africa.
  • Selected Publications:
    • Roshania, R.P., Yates, J., McIntyre, L., Chancellor, T.C.B, Fivian, E., Hill, M., Isoto, R., Marinda, P., Narayanan, S., Whatford, L., Zotor, F., Khandelwal, S. (2023)  Assessing needs for interdisciplinarity in agriculture, nutrition, and health education. Global Food Security (37): 1-9, DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2023.100691
    • Ofori-Kyereh, B.E., Morton, J.F. & Chancellor, T. C. B. (2022) Constraints on farmers’ adaptive capacity to climate variability and change, Climate and Development, 15:4, 312-324, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2083546 
    • Nicklin, C., Chancellor, T., Garcia, A., Gohole, L., Haussmann, B., Kaijage, P., Maland Cady, J., Miller, K., Moore, M., Nelson, R., Powers, M., & Somé, B. (2021). Funder-Initiated Communities of Practice as a Means for Sharing and Creating Knowledge in Order to Strengthen the Adaptive Capacity of Systems. The Foundation Review, 13(1), DOI: 10.9707/1944-5660.1554
    • Chancellor, Tim C.B., Priebe, Jan S.H. Mkenda, & Prisila A. (2019) Crowdsourcing Field Observations from Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania Using Interactive Voice Response. Outlooks on Pest Management (30:3): 104-110, DOI: 10.1564/v30_jun_02
    • Mukanga, M., Matumba, L., Makwenda, B., Alfred, S., Sakala, W., Kanenga, K., Chancellor, T., Mugabe, J. & Bennett, B. (2019) Participatory evaluation of groundnut planting methods for pre-harvest aflatoxin management in Eastern Province of Zambia. Cahiers Agricultures 28 (1), DOI: 10.1051/cagri/2019002
    • Matumba, L. Singano, L.,Tran, B., Mukanga, M., Makwenda, B., Kumwenda, W., Mgwira, S., Phiri, S.,  Mataya, F., Mthunzi, T., Alfred, S., Madzivhandila, T., Mugabe, J., Bennett, B., & Chancellor, T. (2018) Managing aflatoxin in smallholder groundnut production in Southern Africa: Paired comparison of the windrow and Mandela cock techniques. Crop Protection 112: 18-23.
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Visiting Fellow in Capacity Strengthening and Partnerships
Dr Lionel Feugère
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: BA Physics, MSc, PhD, PGCHE equivalent
  • Biography:

    Dr Lionel Feugère joined the University of Greenwich in March 2019. He studied Acoustics, Signal Processing and Computer Science at the University Paris Sud 11, IIT-Bombay and University Paris VI. He passed his Master thesis in 2009 in the industry, specializing in automatic detection and classification of syllables for Karaoke games, and his Ph. D. degree in 2013 about the gestural control of synthesized singing voice, under the supervision of Christophe d’Alessandro at LIMSI-CNRS.

    He has worked with Boris Doval (Sorbonne University) on automatic categorization of various vocal productions from ethno-musicological audio recordings and with Christophe d’Alessandro and Olivier Perrotin (CNRS) on glottal flow models for singing voice synthesis. Then, he started to work on insect acoustic communication with Gabriella GIbson (NRI), investigating mosquito hearing with Olivier Roux (IRD) and the relationship between mosquito’s mating chase flight trajectory and acoustic behaviours with Rajat Mital (John Hopkins).

    He has taught signal processing and computer science in several universities and institutions in France, participated in general public conferences and co-created the Chorus Digitalis, a musical ensemble to illustrate the capabilities of their research in singing synthesis and gestural control, which toured worldwide in scientific and musical venues between 2011 and 2016.

    Previous positions:

    • 2017-2019 Research fellow in bioacoustics, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
    • 2015-2016 Research fellow in singing synthesis, LIMSI-CNRS
    • 2014-2015 Research fellow in automatic audio indexing, UPMC
    • 2013-2014 Lecturer in signal processing (postgraduate studies), Engineering department, UPMC
    • 2009-2013 Ph.D. student and lecturer (undergraduate), LIMSI-CNRS ; Univ. Paris-Est Créteil
    • 2009 Research student in automatic speech recognition, Voxler
    • 2008 Research student in audio information retrieval, LIMSI-CNRS
    • 2007 Research student in music information retrieval, University of Pompeu Fabra
    • 2006 Research student in mechanical engineering, ENSTA-ParisTech
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Lionel Feugère’s research interests are the uses of computational audio techniques and interactive audio-visual systems 1) to study sound communication in insects, 2) to automatically retrieve information from audio recordings, and 3) to design new models of digital musical instrument.

    Recently, Lionel aims to gather behavioural entomology and acoustics data to understand the complex sound production and auditory communication found in some animals and to use this knowledge to reduce the impact of pest insects responsible for major public health issues, particularly in economically under-privileged countries.

    Since 2017, in a complementary collaboration with Professor of Medical Entomology Gabriella Gibson, Lionel is focusing on mosquitoes which are known both to have one of the most sensitive auditory organs among the invertebrates and to be vectors of serious diseases in humans and animals. They have worked with Olivier Roux from the Institut de Recherche pour le Dévelopement on the “ANOFEEL: How ANOpheles Females sEEk maLes?” project which aims to study visual, chemical and acoustic cues involved in mosquito communication. In 2019, Gabriella and Lionel were awarded a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program with Prof. Rajat Mital (PI) and Dr Jung-Hee Seo from John Hopkins University to decode the biomechanics of flight-tone based acoustic communication in mosquitoes.
  • Awards:

    2019 Three-year funding from the Human Frontier Science Program for Decoding the Biomechanics of Flight-Tone Based Acoustic Communication in Mosquitoes.

    2015 First Prize of the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.
One of the most prestigious International contest on new musical instruments (https://guthman.gatech.edu/), awarded by Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (Atlanta) for the digital musical instrument of gesture-control singing voice synthesizer “Cantor Digitalis” (with C. d’Alessandro, B. Doval and O. Perrotin, http://cantordigitalis.limsi.fr/)

    2014 Finalists of the international competition on musical software (Lomus), awarded by the French society of computer music (AFIM) for the open-source digital musical instrument of gesture-control singing voice synthesizer “Cantor Digitalis”
(with C. d’Alessandro, B. Doval and O. Perrotin)

    2012 Young researcher award “Science et Musique”, awarded by IRISA lab and the French society of computer music (AFIM)
  • Selected Publications:

    D'Alessandro, Christophe, Delalez, Samuel, Doval, Boris and Feugère, Lionel (2019) Les instruments chanteurs. Acoustique & Techniques (89). pp. 36-43

    D'Alessandro, Christophe, Feugère, Lionel, Perrotin, Olivier, Delalez, Samuel and Doval, Boris (2018) Le contrôle des instruments chanteurs. In: 14ème Congrès Français d’Acoustique (CFA ’18). Société Française d'Acoustique, Le Havre, France, pp. 1249-1255

    Amy de la Bretèque, Estelle, Doval, Boris, Feugère, Lionel and Moreau-Gaudry, Louis (2017) Liminal utterances and shapes of sadness: Local and acoustic perspectives on vocal production among the Yezidis of Armenia. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 49. pp. 129-148. ISSN 0740-1558 (doi:https://doi.org/10.5921/yeartradmusi.49.2017.0129)

    Feugère, Lionel, d'Alessandro, Christophe, Doval, Boris and Perrotin, Olivier (2017) Cantor Digitalis: chironomic parametric synthesis of singing. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2017 (2). ISSN 1687-4714 (Print), 1687-4722 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13636-016-0098-5, PDF: https://asmp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13636-016-0098-5)

    Goudard, Vincent, Genevois, Hugues and Feugère, Lionel (2017) Stratégie de contrôle de la hauteur dans les instruments de musique numériques. Revue Francophone d'Informatique et Musique (5) (HTML: http://revues.mshparisnord.org/rfim/index.php?id=425)

    Feugère, Lionel, d'Alessandro, Christophe, Delalez, Samuel, Ardaillon, Luc and Roebel, Axel (2016) Evaluation of singing synthesis: Methodology and case study with concatenative and performative systems. In: Proceedings Interspeech 2016. International Speech Communication Association, San Francisco, pp. 1245-1249. (doi:https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1248, PDF: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2016/pdfs/1248.PDF)

    Feugère, Lionel, Doval, Boris and Mifune, Marie-France (2015) Using pitch features for the characterization of intermediate vocal productions. In: 5th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA). University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris. ISBN 979-10-95209-00-3 (PDF: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02113080)

    Feugère, Lionel and d'Alessandro, Christophe (2015), Contrôle gestuel de la synthèse vocale: instruments Cantor Digitalis et Digitartic. Traitement du signal, 32 (4). pp. 417-442. (doi:https://doi.org/10.3166/ts.32.417-442, PDF: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01679397/document)

    D'Alessandro, Christophe, Feugère, Lionel, Le Beux, Sylvain, Perrotin, Olivier and Rilliard, Albert (2014) Drawing melodies: Evaluation of chironomic singing synthesis. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135 (6). pp. 3601-3612. ISSN 0001-4966 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4875718)

    Goudard, Vincent, Genevois, Hugues and Feugère, Lionel (2014) On the playing of monodic pitch in digital music instrument. In: 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) joint with the 11th Sound & Music Computing conference (SMC). Michigan Publishing, Athens, pp. 1418-1425 (PDF: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02113086/document)

    Feugère, Lionel and d'Alessandro, Christophe (2014) Rule-based performative synthesis of sung syllables. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom, pp. 86-87 (PDF: http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2014/nime2014_522.pdf)

    Feugère, Lionel, d’Alessandro, Christophe and Doval, Boris (2013) Performative Voice Synthesis for Edutainment in Acoustic Phonetics and Singing: A Case Study Using the “Cantor Digitalis”. In: Mancas M., d’ Alessandro N., Siebert X., Gosselin B., Valderrama C., Dutoit T. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 124. Springer, Cham (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03892-6_20, PDF: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00932116/document)

    Feugère, Lionel and d’Alessandro, Christophe (2013), Digitartic: bi-manual gestural control of articulation in performative singing synthesis, 13th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Daejeon, Korea Republic, May 27-30, 2013, 331-336. ISSN 2220-4806 (PDF: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01000268/document)

    Le Beux, Sylvain, Feugère, Lionel and d’Alessandro, Christophe (2011), Chorus digitalis : experiment in chironomic choir singing, 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2011), Firenze, Italy, August 27-31, 2011, 2005-2008. ISSN 1990−9772 (PDF: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01712575/document)
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