[1] In her early career, she discovered with her husband the Laang Spean cave site of prehistoric humans in Cambodia.

[1] She then proceeded in 1961 to a doctorate in Centre national de la recherche scientifique focusing on Pleistocene birds, a topic few at the time studied in France or Europe.

[1] Following her marriage in 1964 to Roland Mourer, she relocated to Cambodia where he was assigned by the French military as a "coopérant" in Kampong Chhnang.

[1] In 1965 she was appointed as a geology professor at Royal University of Phnom Penh, a post she held until the civil war in 1970.

[1] In 2011, she published with her colleagues on Lavocatavis africana, an African fossil that may belong to the Phorusrhacidae clade (terror birds).