UM Profiles

Mircea Sofonea is an epidemiologist at the Pathogenesis and Control of Chronic and Emerging Infections (PCCEI) laboratory. While his field has only become widely known since the COVID-19 pandemic, for him it has been a calling for many years. A portrait of a researcher who stays the course.

As holder of the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Heidelberg University and director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Lutz Gade has, over the years, established himself as a world-renowned expert in his field. In addition to his academic career, it was also in recognition of his commitment to cooperation between the University of Heidelberg and the University of Montpellier that he was awarded an honorary doctorate fromUM February 2025.

Having previously focused on 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 is a well-deserved honor for this Professor , who is as dedicated to his work as he is to forging lasting ties withUM its constituent institutions, including Polytech Montpellier.

A professor at the Max Mousseron Institute of Biomolecules atUM, chemist Jean-Yves Winum designs and synthesizes enzyme inhibitors of carbonic anhydrases, a promising target for treatments against cancer and 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 at 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.