Alix Braipson
About me
Alix is a FRIA PhD student focusing her studies on bryophytes spores, being interested in their morphology and ornamentation since her master’s thesis. As a part of her project, she is currently developing BryoSEMnet, a tool enabling moss species identification based on their spores SEM pictures, through the development of Convolutional Neural Networks. This relies on a collaboration with Dr. Patrick Mäder (Technische Universität Ilmenau) as well as the Meise Botanic Garden. Thanks to BryoSEMnet, she will then study palynological records from Macaronesia, to assess the historical changes in the bryophytic insular floras in relation to the human colonization events of the Canary Islands as well as the Azores.