Portraits of the UM

Paul Antonio, a paleomagnetism researcher at the Géosciences Montpellier laboratory, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) grant for his proposal of a new experimental method to refine the dating of the Earth's inner core.

Oriol Amat is Professor of Economics at Barcelona's Pompeu Fabra University, of which he was also Rector. He is considered an expert in financial accounting, management control and corporate fraud. On September 20, the University of Montpellier had the pleasure of awarding him an honorary doctorate.

Erika Burioli works on cancer cells capable of spreading in the environment and infecting foreign organisms. The researcher at the Interactions Hôtes-Pathogènes-Environnements (IHPE) laboratory has been awarded a european research council (ERC) grant in September 2023 to continue her work on bivalves.

With her young team specializing in inflammatory immune mechanisms at the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (IGMM), Nadine Laguette is multiplying her successes. In ten years, she has made several key discoveries and won no fewer than three prestigious European ERC grants. At the end of 2022, she was awarded the Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca de l'Institut de France cancerology prize.  

A world-renowned researcher in the field of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), Michel Bouvier has contributed to numerous fundamental and therapeutic discoveries on these proteins, which are the target of over 30% of drugs on the market. Many Montpellier researchers have trained with this professor from the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal. In 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Montpellier.

Ludovic Berthier is Director of Research in Statistical Physics at the Charles Coulomb Laboratory and Research Associate at Cambridge University. Last March, this author of over 200 publications was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal for 25 years of research into disordered physical systems.