Portraits of UM

Pascale Idoux is a professor and researcher in public law and talks about her discipline as others talk about birds: by taking you on a journey. During an hour spent within the walls of an office at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, she takes us on a journey from the European Organization of Public Law to the training program at the Institut de l'Entreprise, via nuclear law, the Institut Universitaire de France, and, of course, the University of Montpellier.

American geneticist Randall Wisser has just joined INRAE to design the seeds of tomorrow. His approach involves drawing on the genetic resources of seeds from around the world and then using computer modeling to adapt them to new environments. Coming from the University of Delaware, his arrival in Montpellier follows an EXPLORE mobility program, MUSE's international mobility program.

The French Society of Ecology and Evolution has awarded its 2020 Grand Prize to Philippe Jarne, a CNRS researcher at the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology. The prize recognizes his research in evolutionary and population biology, invasion biology, and ecology. Portrait of a gastropod specialist.

A specialist in wine microorganisms, biologist Fabienne Remize is changing scale by taking over the management of a large unit, the UMR Sciences pour l'œnologie (SPO: University of Montpellier, INRAE, Institut Agro – Montpellier SupAgro) as part of the I-SITE MUSE attractiveness program. 

Johanna Calderon, a researcher in neuropsychology and psychiatry at Harvard University, will take up a chair in neurodevelopment of congenital heart disease at the University of Montpellier in January 2021. This is a first in France.

On October 22, the University of Montpellier, and more specifically its Faculty of Law and Political Science, paid tribute to Professor Georges Frêche, who passed away ten years ago. We look back on the career of an extraordinary academic and political figure who did not wait for posterity to build his own legend.