Portraits of UM

With one foot in evolutionary genomics and the other in bioinformatics, Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier from the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier (ISEM) scrutinizes genomes in search of repeated elements capable of influencing species adaptation. She promotes bioinformatics as a scientific discipline in its own right.

She has revolutionized chemistry by making it environmentally friendly. Claude Grison has just been awarded the European Inventor Award 2022 in the "Researchcategory by the European Patent Office. We look back at the career of the director of the ChimEco laboratory, for whom dialogue and transdisciplinarity are the keys to innovation.

Under the patronage of Alexandre Viala, professor of public law at UM, the University of Montpellier had the honor and pleasure of welcoming Belgian François Ost to award him an honorary doctorate. Portrait of this jurist and legal philosopher who excels in the art of recounting the law in order to better understand it.

A researcher at Inria, statistician Julie Josse joined the Desbrest Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health (IDESP) in January 2021. The specialist in missing data has been applying statistical power to the field of health for nearly ten years.

Karim Majzoub heads the "RNA Viruses and Host Factors" research team at the Institute of Molecular Genetics in Montpellier (IGMM). Winner of the Atip-Avenir – MUSE 2020 award, he has been awarded a €1.5 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to conduct his research on delta viruses. A virus responsible for hepatitis D in humans, but recently found in a large number of animal species.

Rocio Semino is a researcher at the Charles Gerhardt Montpellier Institute. Last December, she was awarded a €1.35 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to conduct her research on metal-organic networks. Portrait of a chemist who masters the art of synthesis... without a test tube!