UM Profiles

After studying the impact of human activities on marine biodiversity, David Mouillot is now examining the potential role of coastal marine resources in reducing human poverty. A professor at the University of Montpellier and a researcher at the Marbec laboratory, he has just been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to conduct transdisciplinary research on this new topic.

Armand Soldera, Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec (Canada), has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier. This well-deserved honor goes to a Professor who is as dedicated to his work as he is to forging lasting ties with the University of Montpellier and its constituent units, including Polytech Montpellier.

A professor at the Max Mousseron Institute of Biomolecules at the University of Montpellier (UM), chemist Jean-Yves Winum designs and synthesizes enzyme inhibitors targeting carbonic anhydrases, a promising target for cancer treatments and therapies against various pathogens. His career has been recognized with the Michel Delalande Prize from the National Academy of Pharmacy.

Paul-Émile Paradan, a mathematics researcher at the Alexander Grothendieck Institute in Montpellier, part of the University of Montpellier, has been awarded the “Alexandre-Joannidès” Prize by the French Academy of Sciences. The award recognizes years of independent research at the intersection of Atiyah-Singer index theory, representation theory, and symplectic geometry.  

Thanks to the MAK'IT program (Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions), Silvia Giordani is weaving collaborations with several UM laboratories around her nanomaterials research. The Dublin City University professor is taking advantage of this to extend the biomedical applications of her carbon nano-onions to fields other than medicine, particulary energy.

Catherine Alix-Panabières is one of the world’s leading experts on circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and liquid biopsy. As the originator of the term, the professor of oncology at the University of Montpellier and director of the Laboratory for Rare Human Circulating Cells and Liquid Biopsy (LCCRH) is spearheading numerous research projects on cancer biomarkers present in the blood, with therapeutic applications in sight.