Gilberte Gendron holds an MSc in Oceanography from Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada, where her research examined the impact of anthropogenic noise on the feeding behaviour of fish larvae. She also holds a BSc in Earth and Environmental Science from Aix-Marseille University.

She has over fourteen years of experience in biodiversity conservation, having worked with the Seychelles government, including the Seychelles National Parks Authority (now the Seychelles Parks and Gardens Authority), at both technical and decision-making levels, in collaboration with local NGOs and community partners.

Gilberte currently works as an independent consultant with Bee Ecological Consultancy. Her professional focus includes coral reef ecosystems and associated habitats, protected area management, and environmental policy development.

From 2018 to 2020, she served as a part-time Associate Lecturer at the University of Seychelles, delivering the course Introduction to Marine Ecology to first-year Environmental Science BSc students.

She has participated in numerous specialised training programmes and oceanographic missions—covering fisheries, marine geology, and marine mammals—across the Seychelles Exclusive Economic Zone and the western Indian Ocean. She has extensive experience in ecological monitoring methodologies, including seabird, turtle, and tortoise surveys, beach profiling, and coral and fish community assessments.

She has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications in international scientific journals, including as co-author of a paper published in Nature Communications.