Dr. Amandine Cornille's academic journey includes a Master's at ENS Ulm (France) and a Ph.D. at Univ. Paris Sud (2009-2012). She completed postdocs at Uppsala University (2013-2015) and ETH Zurich (2015-2017). In 2017, she became a CNRS researcher at Université Paris-Saclay.

In 2024, she was appointed Associate Professor at NYUAD to continue her work on the ecology and (epi-)genomic bases of the response of crop trees and their wild relatives to global changes (climate change and parasite outbreak). Dr. Cornille integrates laboratory experiments, fieldwork, modeling, and population genomics to study plant diversity and adaptation to their environment, focusing on domesticated fruit trees and their wild relatives.

Her work has been published in top journals, including Trends in Genetics, Trends in Plant Science, PloS Genetics, Nature Communications, and Molecular Ecology, Evolutionary Applications. She actively engages in outreach and participative science programs. Dr. Cornille received the PhD Young Researcher award (2009) and multiple national and international research grants (ATIP-CNRS Inserm, ANR JCJC, BNP Fondation Paribas “Climate and Biodiversity Initiative”, European LEADER, Europe H2020…). She was awarded the CNRS Paoletti Prize in 2020 for her contributions to biology.