Portraits of theUM

April’s news also includes the success of Andréa 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 great 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 lecture in March 2020 that led her to “reexamine 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 found in Antarctica. Here’s a profile of the very first student from theUM to be invited to participate in a Greenpeace mission. And what a mission it is!

At age 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 Laboratory of Physiology and Experimental Medicine of the Heart and Muscles, 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, has also qualified for the French team boxing championships, and is a master’s student in hydrogeology at theUM.

Carol-Ann Borel, 20, is a swimmer on the Montpellier university team—which was crowned the 2019 French champion—and a junior at the UFR STAPS in Montpellier.