Jérémy Carlot is a post-doctoral fellow mainly interested in the functioning of benthic communities. He did his PhD at the Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement (CRIOBE – France and French Polynesia), to study how the coral reef functioning was affected by global changes. He was also interested in more human-centered issues, quantifying the loss of efficiency of coral reefs to dissipate wave energy in a changing world. He later conducted a 1-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre de Synthèse et d’Analyse sur la Biodiversité (CESAB – France) to define a functional index of coral reef health on a global scale. He is now at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche sur mer (LOV – France), where he is interested in defining how temperate communities cope with climate change, still using a functional approach.