UM Profiles

Oriol Amat is a professor of economics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where he also served as rector. He is regarded as an expert in financial accounting, management control, and corporate fraud. On September 20, the University of Montpellier was pleased to award him an honorary doctorate.

Erika Burioli studies cancer cells capable of spreading into the environment and infecting foreign organisms. The researcher at the Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions (IHPE) laboratory was 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 Montpellier Institute of Molecular Genetics (IGMM), Nadine Laguette has achieved one success after another. Over the past ten years, she has made several key discoveries and secured no fewer than three prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grants. In late 2022, she received the Cancer Research Award from the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation of the Institut de France.  

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

Ludovic Berthier is a research director in statistical physics at the Charles Coulomb Laboratory and an associate researcher at the University of Cambridge. Last March, this author of more than 200 publications received the CNRS Silver Medal in recognition of 25 years of research on disordered physical systems.

A leading figure in paleontology, Colombian scientist Carlos Jaramillo specializes in the evolution of Amazonian-Andean ecosystems over the past 120 million years. The researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has, in particular, shed light on the origins of the region’s rich biodiversity.