Portraits of the UM

Véronique Lecointe, Director of the Maieutics Department at the University of Montpellier, has been awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur for her career. A distinction that crowns a rich career and highlights an essential profession: midwifery. Portrait.

April also saw the success of Andréa Tommasi, Director of Research at the Geosciences laboratory of the University of Montpellier, winner of a European Research Council grant for her RhEoVOLUTION project. A good start to the year for this specialist in terrestrial deformation, who was also awarded the CNRS silver medal in 2020.

Louise O. Fresco, Professor and President of Wageningen University & Reseach, was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by Philippe Augé, President of the Université de Montpellier, on the occasion of her visit to the Université de Montpellier for a conference on "revisiting the linked destinies of agriculture and food" in March 2020. Fresco, Professor and President of Wageningen University & Reseach, was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Montpellier by Philippe Augé, President of the University of Montpellier.

From January 5 to February 13, Nacim Guellati will be aboard the Arctic Sunrise as an environmental DNA specialist. His mission: to identify the marine species present in Antarctica. Portrait of the very first UM student invited to take part in a Greenpeace mission. And what a mission it was!

At the age of 24, Sarah Colombani has just been awarded the Jeanne Philippe Beziat prize by the French Foundation for Medical Research (FRM). A doctoral student at the University of Montpellier in the Physiology and Experimental Medicine of the Heart and Muscles laboratory, she is beginning her thesis in cardiology under the supervision of Albano Meli and Alain Lacampagne. Interview.

Loïc Lalague is the 2019 French kick-boxing champion, also qualified for the French team boxing championships, and a Master 2 hydrogeology student at UM.