Portraits of UM

Véronique Lecointe, director of the midwifery department at the University of Montpellier, has been awarded the title of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in recognition of her career. This distinction crowns a rich career and highlights an essential profession: midwifery. Portrait.

April also saw the success of Andrea Tommasi, research director at the Geosciences Laboratory at the University of Montpellier, who was awarded a grant from the European Research Council for her RhEoVOLUTION project. It's been a good start to the year for this specialist in terrestrial deformation, who was also awarded the CNRS silver medal in 2020.

During her visit to the University of Montpellier for a conference in March 2020, where she "revisited the intertwined destinies of agriculture and food," Louise O. Fresco, professor and president of Wageningen University & Research, was awarded an honorary doctorate from 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 marine species present in Antarctica. Portrait of the very first UM student invited to participate in a Greenpeace mission. And what a mission!

At the age of 24, Sarah Colombani has just been awarded the Jeanne Philippe Beziat Prize by the 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 kickboxing champion, also qualified for the French team boxing championships, and a master's student in hydrogeology at the University of Montpellier.