Loic LESOBRE

Loïc was born in France and has spent most of his adult life overseas, notably in Morocco, South Africa, and the UAE. He joined Reneco in 2001 at the Emirates Centre for Wildlife Propagation in Morocco, where he formalized the genetic management strategy of the program while managing the artificial reproduction laboratory. In parallel, he completed his PhD at the Museum of Natural History in Paris in 2008, focusing on the genetic structure of wild North-African houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata undulata) populations and its implications for reinforcement programs.

In 2012, he moved to the UAE to establish and oversee genetic management and artificial reproduction at the National Avian Research Center. Today, as Head of Conservation Genetics at Reneco and Executive Director of OIKOS Genomics, he supervises all genetics and genomics activities and contributes to a wide range of multidisciplinary research projects. Beyond conservation genomics, his research spans biodiversity inventories, microbiomes, migratory behaviour, reproductive physiology, aging, and veterinary medicine.